Never knowingly undersolved
The puzzle may be found at https://www.theguardian.com/crosswords/cryptic/27995. I found this a most enjoyable crossword – witty, inventive, and challenging enough without being too difficult. It has been a while since I last blogged … Read more >>
Invisible Ink by Phi Preamble: Spoiler: highlight the whitespace before the compiler’s name (above) to see the puzzle’s title. Well! What’s that all about? I’ve often wondered if we could ever have … Read more >>
Imogen sets the Tuesday challenge. As usual with this setter, we have a handful of straightforward clues [e.g. 12, 14, 18ac, 2, 15dn] to get us started and keep us going, with others … Read more >>
A straightforward Tuesday solve from a new setter to me.
Maize is an irregular setter for the Independent appearing just a few times each year. Maize set the wonderful quintuple pangram on New Year’s Day in 2018. The theme present … Read more >>
A fine Quiptic from Matilda this morning. One or two clues to stretch the target audience of ‘beginners’, but all fair. I have tried to explain in detail how all the clues work, … Read more >>
A fun solve, and I was held up in places with an unusual grid and a few less familiar words. Favourites 1ac, 14ac, and 25ac. Thanks to Chifonie for the puzzle.
An enjoyable challenge from Armonie this morning.
We are meeting up suspiciously often on Monday mornings, me and this setter. I can assure readers that our relationship is entirely 11ac, but I do love her in a special way this … Read more >>
The Observer crossword from Nov 24, 2019 As is almost normal in the UK nowadays, Everyman seems to divide opinion but I thought this was a generally sound offering in the now familiar … Read more >>
As always, a tractable and entertaining puzzle from Peter for the Independent on Sunday slot. Abbreviations cd cryptic definition dd double definition cad clue as definition (xxxx)* anagram anagrind … Read more >>
Always a pleasure, thank you Azed. ACROSS 1 ORCHESTRALIST Musician, vocal practitioner taking in right dresser (13) ORALIST (vocal practitioner) contains R (right) CHEST (dresser) 11 HERACLEAN Goddess, entirely heroic (9) HERA … Read more >>
The puzzle can be found here. Hi all. It’s been an excellent week for Indy puzzles! Thanks to Wiglaf for this one. As is often the case I enjoyed the cheekier parts, … Read more >>
Apologies for the tardiness of this review. Had a little bit of electrical work to do. Which if you have been following the election campaign is about as factual as most of the … Read more >>
One of those crosswords where there are too many great clues to pick out any particular favourites! We found it of moderate difficulty for a prize, solving it in one session. Many thanks … Read more >>