Never knowingly undersolved
Always interesting to get first blogging dibs on a new setter. Until now Flitwick was just a station that I occasionally whizzed through on my way to St Pancras from the East Midlands, … Read more >>
On the easy side for Azed I thought. Thank you Azed.
Samuel pits the challenge this week. Six special entries and the rest have an additional answer in the wordplay. These spell three titles and the name of the leader behind all three must … Read more >>
O Serpent, have you fooled me this time. I’m well used to there being a theme in a Serpent puzzle, and well-used to missing them, which I don’t usually worry about. But as … Read more >>
I got a bit stuck half way through this, though looking back I’m not sure why – I think all the clues are fair and not too hard. Some lovely misleading surface readings … Read more >>
Nutmeg ends the week with her usual wit and elegance. I found this a bit more of a tussle than usual and at one point had the whole of the right hand side … Read more >>
It’s Phi-day again!
An easy challenge from MUDD, who I havent seen much on Fridays. There might be more to the parsing on a couple of clues than what I have so looking forward to improvements on them. Thanks MUDD.
Punk has provided today’s daily (over?)dose of cruciverbal entertainment. I found this to be a real challenge, of a puzzle, but one that I thoroughly enjoyed. Punk won the battle between solver and … Read more >>
A slow, difficult, and satisfying solve. Favourites were 17ac, 1dn, 3dn, 7dn, and 22dn. Thanks to Paul.
Artexlen provides this morning’s FT challenge.
Prize puzzle from the Weekend FT of March 9, 2019
This turned out to be harder than it looked on first reading. Thanks Aardvark.
A very enjoyable puzzle from Tramp which has one of his characteristic themes running through some of the clues, albeit less all-pervasively than he sometimes manages (I may have missed some references). I … Read more >>
Silvanus has produced a few Independent weekday puzzles in recent weeks and I have liked the couple I have blogged previously. I enjoyed this one as well. It didn’t fall … Read more >>