Never knowingly undersolved
Hello everybody. Thanks to Brock for a great value puzzle. The preamble reads: Solvers are invited to make use of a SPECIAL OFFER. It is valid for wordplay only and is strictly … Read more >>
Non-prize puzzle from the Weekend FT of November 6, 2021
Knut provides our Wednesday entertainment today.
Another nice puzzle form Aardvark. Not difficult overall, but there were a couple of clues held me up for quite a while. Thank you Aardvark.
Lots of tricky fun – many likes including 1ac, 9ac, 12ac, 14ac, 18ac, 24ac, 2dn, 3dn, 7dn… thanks to Picaroon for the puzzle
Kruger’s 50th Inquisitor puzzle. Preamble: Seventeen clues contain an extra word that must be removed before solving. In clue order, the first or fourth letters of each extra word followed by the … Read more >>
Tees teases us today
I found this quite a tough one, though in retrospect everything is soundly clued. A couple of bits of general knowledge might cause some trouble. Thanks to Imogen Across 9 CHIPOLATA Some … Read more >>
Thank you to Zamorca. Definitions are underlined in the clues. Across 1. Posts soldiers to guard heavy artillery, initially two in position (3-5) JOB-SHARE : JOBS(posts/positions in an organisation) + RE(abbrev. for the … Read more >>
Always a smile on my face when I see Hectence’s name come up on my watch. A pleasing puzzle with her trademark twist. The twist is that it’s a pangram – all 26 … Read more >>
Definitely not a typical Monday puzzle!
Bluth eases us into the Indy week. Although I’m not sure ‘eases’ is entirely the right choice of verb – I found this tricky in many places. Abbreviations cd cryptic definition dd double … Read more >>
Matilda's Monday morning misdirections
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My apologies for the late blog everybody.