Never knowingly undersolved
A quick, but very fun Easter Sunday solve. The preamble for this puzzle reads: Each numbered square in the diagram is surrounded by eight blank squares. All clues lead to answers of … Read more >>
The puzzle can be found here. Hello everyone. I hope you and your loved ones are well. I found this very much on the gentle side for Hob, but beautifully clued – … Read more >>
A fairly standard Eye this time. Enjoyable but not difficult. Whistled through solving this. Only 4 unsolved after the first pass and the whole thing wrapped up in under half an hour including … Read more >>
I think this was a good Easter crossword challenge – definitely tough towards the end, but it felt like a fair challenge to me, and there are lots of nice clues to enjoy. … Read more >>
As the world becomes more and more virtual, The Purge is here to entertain us. Most clues have an extra letter, spelling out a definition, and four require something to be removed before … Read more >>
Had to slog through this challenge from BRADMAN, thanks to whom for a robust workout. Learnt a couple of new words along the way.
Intimidating at first and enjoyable throughout – I liked all of the outer long clues, and other favourites were 10ac, 19ac, 3dn, and 16dn. Thanks to Philistine.
Phi day again! As usual we started out looking at the clue for 1ac – and were stumped. However, once we worked our way into the grid, we realised that … Read more >>
Monk has supplied this week’s Thursday puzzle. It is indeed a long time since it has fallen to me to blog one of his teasers. I never ever seem to race through a … Read more >>
A strong week of Guardian puzzles continues with another great offering from Picaroon. The four long down answers in this grid are either a big help if you can solve them early on, … Read more >>
Today’s lockdown entertainment is provided by Slormgorm.
Non-prize puzzle from the Weekend FT of April 4, 2020
Note: there is an error in the PDF version of this puzzle: 16 across should be labelled 15, 16 and 20 across should be labelled 19, 20. Other than that an entertaining puzzle. … Read more >>
Day 24 in the Lockdown House, and your blogger is trying to keep his spirits up…
Eccles is currently the most regular Wednesday setter for the Independent weekday series. This was a puzzle of two halves for me. I made excellent progress on the top half, … Read more >>