Never knowingly undersolved
It is Phi-day after all today, so I was not surprised to find Phi’s latest puzzle to solve this morning. I haven’t spotted a particular theme or Nina here, although in looking up … Read more >>
An enjoyable challenge from ARTEXLEN today.
Nice to see Maskarade on a weekday – my favourites were 9ac, 13ac, 15ac, 3dn, and 14dn. Thanks for the puzzle.
I’m standing in for Andrew, who’s holidaying in the Highlands, lucky chap. My heart sank a bit when, on a quick run-through, I saw all the references to ‘6’ but I’d solved 22ac … Read more >>
Moo provides the FT breakfast entertainment.
Klingsor is a frequent contributor to the Independent cryptic puzzle series. This was a good Thursday challenge with the clue for CHATEAUBRIAND (4 down) being the standout for me today. … Read more >>
Hello all. This was a Vismutastic weekend for me as I also picked up Vismut’s Listener puzzle from the weekend before. I won’t say anything about that puzzle now of course, but here … Read more >>
Non-prize puzzle from the Weekend FT of September 11, 2021
I would describe this as traditional in style without feeling old-fashioned. Not that easy either, plenty to get your teeth into if you like to parse everything fully. Thank you Aardvark.
Slightly tricky from Bluth today, but fun as usual.
Nutmeg gets the grey matter going this morning.
Vagans – a newbie. Preamble: A serious ascent is being made, in three stages, which requires excess baggage to be shed. Wordplay in 25 clues generates an extra letter not to be … Read more >>
To our delight, Hoskins pops up this Tuesday.
Thank you to Mudd. Definitions are underlined in the clues. Across 1. After party, artist drawing dog (11) LABRADOODLE : LAB(short for the UK Labour Party) plus(After …) RA(member of the Royal Academy … Read more >>
The puzzle may be found at https://www.theguardian.com/crosswords/cryptic/28556.