Never knowingly undersolved
Hi everyone. I hope you are well. Thanks to Kcit for an enjoyable puzzle which certainly had someThing about it. The preamble reads: The five five-letter across entries in order are the … Read more >>
A classic prize puzzle from Paul with some lovely surfaces. I have commented before on how inventive Paul is. Here he comes up with a fresh way of clueing PINAFORE and finds a … Read more >>
My apologies for the late posting of this blog, owing to urgent family circumstances. As is customary, Phi brings this working week to a close with his latest puzzle. Not for the first … Read more >>
A tough challenge from WANDERER today. I needed Geoff’s help to complete the blog.
A slow solve with some tricky parsing. I especially liked 13ac, 27ac, and 1dn – other favourites were 25ac, 31ac, and 21dn. Thanks to Paul.
Good entertainment from Crucible this morning, with one outrageously parochial/dated reference, and one clue I can’t fully parse at 11a. Thanks to Crucible.
Serpent provides today’s challenge I found the biggest challenge today to be how to parse some of the clues. I am still left with three I can’t parse satisfactorily. These … Read more >>
Neo steps up to the setters’ plate this morning.
Prize puzzle from the Weekend FT of February 29, 2020 For Leap Day, we get a special puzzle from Gozo. It must have taken him some struggle to fit this together and have … Read more >>
A great puzzle! Not hard by Io’s standards, but that certainly doesn’t make a puzzle easy… Thank you Io. There are various references to tea and tea making in here, but I don’t … Read more >>
An elegant, but not iverly challenging, puzzle from Nutmeg in today’s Guardian.
Well I suppose it is Tuesday [don’t even know what day it is, as Rabbit Dave reminds me], so we must expect something difficult [On Wednesday? Not in recent times, although things may … Read more >>
I seem to recall that Hedge-sparrow’s other Inquisitor puzzle had quite a lot going on. Preamble: The outer cells contain a phrase (nine words) from a speech made by the person whose … Read more >>
Amazingly it’s almost two years since we last blogged a Radian puzzle, so we really looked forward to an interesting challenge today. There certainly were some challenging clues, but also some straightforward ones … Read more >>
Thanks Moo for the (debut?) puzzle. Definitions are underlined in the clues. Across 1 Woman in Congress almost completely mad (6) BONKER : “bonkers”(completely mad/insane) minus its last letter(almost …). Defn: Woman (or … Read more >>