Never knowingly undersolved
As spring approaches, a puzzle from Knut accompanies the daffodils, snowdrops and vaccination shots. General knowledge required, but nothing I needed to look up. References to Pia Zadora and the Nolans make me … Read more >>
Phew, we found this a tough puzzle to complete! It took several days of coming back to it for us. Very nice cluing as ever, and good “a-ha!” moments when we finally understood … Read more >>
A typical ALBERICH offering. Very clean cluing to put it succinctly.
It’s Phi-day again. Where does the week go? We are not really doing anything but the days and weeks seem to go past so quickly.
The puzzle may be found at https://www.theguardian.com/crosswords/cryptic/28397.
A Thursday treat for me – it’s Crucible setting the challenge this morning, with an interesting puzzle with lots of cleverly constructed clues and witty surfaces, as usual. I think 1ac introduces a … Read more >>
The Thursday crossword this week has been compiled for us by Serpent. I found this to be a thoroughly entertaining crossword, which revealed itself very gradually and offered lots of enjoyment along the … Read more >>
A clever puzzle from Moo.
11 clues hinting at two overlapping words. The rest are straight forward cryptic ones. A fun puzzle at the easier end of the spectrum. I did really enjoy it and it was nice … Read more >>
Non-prize puzzle from the Weekend FT of February 6, 2021
Good fun from Julius, as always. There are a couple of clues that I can’t explain, can anyone help out? Thank you Julius.
A tricky puzzle – I was glad to get the long outer clues quite quickly. I liked all the long clues, as well as 26ac and 7dn. Thanks to Imogen
Well it’s a Hoskins’ puzzle today, so it will be entertaining and will probably generate comments. Hoskins tends to the use of colourful language in both his clues and his … Read more >>
This week’s Inquisitor set by Vismut is entitled Whodunnit, so we have a mystery on our hands. The preamble told us that each down clue has an extra letter … Read more >>
A witty puzzle from Bluth as always, with some hidden treasures.