Never knowingly undersolved
Pasquale fills the midweek slot with an interesting puzzle. As usual, we have a few less familiar words and names, as usually, helpfully clued, in particular 24ac, the only one unknown to me, … Read more >>
Eccles is in challenging mood today, but fun as always.
Thank you to Bobcat. Definitions are underlined in the clues. Across 1. Bobcat’s ready: you sound unprepared (9) IMPROMPTU : I’M(contraction of “I am”/”Bobcat is”, ie. with the setter using the self-referential pronoun) … Read more >>
Skylark completes the quartet in “Ladies’ Month” (though there is room for another one this April). Preamble: Every clue but one contains an extra letter which should be removed before solving. In order, … Read more >>
A plain puzzle again this week. Thank you Azed.
A tricky solve…
Wiglaf fills the Tuesday spot this week – should be fun.
Hectence shows off her skills as a Quiptic setter this morning. If you are in the ‘beginner’ category, then have another look at the surface readings in this puzzle. They are all beautifully … Read more >>
Great way to start bank holiday Monday!
Tees has the bank holiday crossword for us. There is a theme among the answers today which, unless you have been living on another planet for the last six months, can hardly have … Read more >>
Another Monday, another Bank Holiday, another Vulcan puzzle. This was almost a write-in for me, with only the unknown name of a plant briefly holding me up. Thanks to Vulcan. Across 1 … Read more >>
Quick stand-in blog sorry for any errors or omissions
For much of this crossword I was thinking how pleasant it was, but towards the end some of the clues seemed to become rather tortuous. Who knows if I’ve actually got it right — I may be barking up the wrong tree — but there were some clues that I’m a bit doubtful about. Which will encourage the poster a few months ago to mention my crabbiness. Sorry — I’m hard to please!
Definitions underlined in crimson. Indicators (homophone, hiddem, anagram etc.) in italics. Link-words in green. Anagrams indicated *(like this) or (like this)*.
Soup has been a fairly prolific setter of Genius puzzles recently – with at least seven between 2016 and 2021, but this is his first for over a year, and my first of his to blog…
Serpent presents today’s challenge.