Never knowingly undersolved
Quite a tricky one, as usual with Boatman, not helped by the unfriendly grid, with its almost isolated four sub-grids. There seems to be a bit of a theme of modern (usually business-related) … Read more >>
Non-prize puzzle from the Weekend FT of May 9, 2020
Tees has produced our mid-week cruciverbal entertainment for this Wednesday. I actually found this to be a puzzle of two-halves: I made swift progress through the left-hand side of the grid, but then … Read more >>
Entertaining to solve and blog as always. Thank you Julius. ACROSS 1 TAXI DRIVER One seen in rank Scorsese movie? (4,6) double defintion 7 CUBE Solid snooker player uses it potting black … Read more >>
A gentle puzzle with an “aard” to spot theme?
Hamilton. A different kind of fun.
The rubric read: The corrections to misprints in 10 definitions spell out a relevant event. In one of the two thematic unclued entries, two checked cells contain multiple letters (entered vertically). Several answers … Read more >>
Radian is a fairly regular Tuesday setter in the Independent If it’s a Radian puzzle there is going to be a theme. I’ve blogged many Radians with a literary theme. … Read more >>
The puzzle may be found at https://www.theguardian.com/crosswords/cryptic/28137. The keystone clue is 17A RHINO, used in other clues in the slang sense of money. At times, the puzzle seemed to be an exercise in … Read more >>
Vulcan starts the week with a typical Monday medley of charades, anagrams and double and cryptic [some more so than others] definitions. There are a couple of old favourites at 27ac and 7dn, … Read more >>
Plenty to enjoy in Falcon’s crossword this morning.
Skinny made his Indy debut less than a year ago (I blogged it) and has become a regular since. He’s another good addition to the Indy stable: this was a witty, entertaining and … Read more >>
Cyclops is on a run of relatively easy crosswords lately. This one got finished within the half-hour. Top right quadrant complete and two-thirds filled in by the end of the first pass at … Read more >>
A delightful Quiptic from Carpathian, just right for new and improving solvers, in my opinion. To that end, I have tried to give full explanations of all the clues, but if you are … Read more >>
Another Tees puzzle for our Sunday entertainment. As always, I learnt something (and was entertained by a tractable and pleasing cryptic crossword). Abbreviations cd cryptic definition dd double definition cad clue … Read more >>