Never knowingly undersolved
Eccles appears as a setter in the Independent every two weeks on a Wednesday Eccles has a reputation for excellent clues with smooth surfaces, as was the case today. I … Read more >>
Some wonderfully wicked parsing and definitions for a Tuesday.
The Inquisitor series moves into Ladies month with this puzzle from Chalicea. We had a very short preamble this week telling us that a scientist whose name must be highlighted … Read more >>
Tuesday fun from Hoskins, enjoyable as usual.
Imogen provides a stiff Tuesday challenge.
A competition puzzle again this week Thank you Azed.
A good Quiptic with the occasional tricky moment.
I still think of Wire as one of the ‘new’ Indy setters, but in fact he made his debut nearly four years ago now. I really liked this offering from him – a … Read more >>
And so to my second favourite feature of Private Eye (I will declare the Eye’s cartoons are always the first thing I consume). Solving was yet another round of making life difficult for … Read more >>
The puzzle may be found at https://www.theguardian.com/crosswords/cryptic/28728.
GAFF gives us an anniversary puzzle this morning…
Thank you to Tees. Definitions are underlined in the clues. Across 1. Pound succeeded Dickensian character, female, past prime (9) SHEEPFOLD : S(abbrev. for “succeeded”) + HEEP(Uriah, character in Charles Dickens’ novel “David … Read more >>
Another pleasing and tractable puzzle from our Sunday setter. There were some nice touches in this one, I thought, as well as the trademark rhyming pair and ‘initial’ clue. Abbreviations cd cryptic definition … Read more >>
My first blog of puzzle from Bluth. Should be fun. A setter I have admired for other reasons for many years. Very admirable indeed. Some very ingenious devices in play, as has become … Read more >>
Given the theme, it’s perhaps ironic that at the time I came to solve this puzzle, I was suffering from Covid-induced tinnitus.