Never knowingly undersolved
Phi has provided a challenging puzzle for our Good Friday entertainment. Phi definitely had the last (and second to last) laugh on me today, since I almost drew a blank in the NE … Read more >>
Paul rounds off the week with a mixture of straightforward clues to get us started and some more challenging ones to make us think. It took a few minutes to get started – … Read more >>
Today’s puzzle can be found here
Serpent has set today’s puzzle Thursday is usually a day when there is a theme or a message. For the first time in a while, I found a message before … Read more >>
Lots of fun with some very nice misdirection – favourites were 14ac, 20ac, 23ac, 5dn, and 15dn. Thanks to Nutmeg
Prize puzzle from the Weekend FT of March 28, 2020
A great puzzle form Io, but not one for the faint-hearted. After tussling with this for a long time there is one I still cannot explain. Thank you Io. ACROSS 8 STABLE COMPANION … Read more >>
Qaos has a tendency to be somewhat “liberal” with his cryptic grammar at times. I don’t usually complain about this, but there seems to be rather more of it than usual here, with … Read more >>
Some very good clues here: I enjoyed this a lot. At times they took a bit of working out, but apart from minor quibbles, it all seems to be sound. Clues underlined, in … Read more >>
Haven’t seen Augeas here for nearly 5 years. And it’s a very short preamble … Preamble: Solvers should fill the blank cells, then highlight someone, and what (cryptically) she saw (30 cells). … Read more >>
Thanks to Gaff for an elegantly themed puzzle. Definitions are underlined in the clues. Today’s the 250th anniversary of the birth of the person hidden in the 1st row. Solutions include a description … Read more >>
Radian’s puzzles appear once a month, and we hadn’t blogged one for some time, until last month – so it’s two in a row now – lucky us! We like themed puzzles and … Read more >>
I always struggle with Vlad puzzles, and this was no exception.
An enjoyable start to the week.
It’s almost two years to the day since Pasquale last compiled a Quiptic for us. In the main cryptic slot in the Guardian, he is considered to be a fair but sometimes difficult … Read more >>