Never knowingly undersolved
I see this is my 800th blog for Fifteensquared, and Puck has provided a tough challenge for me to celebrate it. There’s a sporty theme running through the clues, but fortunately for me … Read more >>
Hob is filling the compiling slot this Tuesday, and, as you might expect, we have a theme to contend with. I found this puzzle to be both challenging and entertaining, as it gradually … Read more >>
Sign Up Here! by Ploy A group of two or three letters must be removed from each of ten clues, to form new clues to be solved. In the remaining clues, the wordplay … Read more >>
Ah, Hamilton. As usual, fun of a different kind.
Pasquale is today’s Guardian compiler.
A delightful puzzle full of lots of variety.
SLORMGORM kicks off the week…
Thank you to Carpathian. Definitions are underlined in the clues. Across 1. Wrote about love master arranged (8) COMPOSED : C(abbrev. for “circa”/about when refering to years or periods of time) + O(letter … Read more >>
The puzzle may be found at https://www.theguardian.com/crosswords/cryptic/28429.
I also had the pleasure/honour of blogging the last ‘milestone’ Cyclops – no. 600 – nearly four years, or ‘a Trump’, ago. My how time flies…and congratulations to Cyclops for extending his longevity even further!
The puzzle is available here. Hi all. I have found myself for the third time in a row blogging a Tees – only this time I knew it! Contrary to its surface … Read more >>
I found this not too hard, though somewhat less easy to decode in detail, not helped by an initial wrong guess at 32a. I believe there’s a small slip in 20a, but otherwise … Read more >>
The puzzle may be found at https://www.theguardian.com/crosswords/everyman/3888.
A puzzle from Maize. A new setter for me to blog certainly. One to do over petit-dejeuner perhaps? Definitely a French theme today. Throughout the grid, and in the clues are a variety … Read more >>
A worthy Saturday challenge from master-grid-filler Brendan, with another masterpiece of grid-filling. We know to expect some kind of theme from Brendan. As usual, I tackled the clues in order, so it wasn’t … Read more >>