Never knowingly undersolved
Having occupied the Tuesday slot last week, Phi is back in his usual Friday slot this week. Despite there being the potential for a Nina around the perimeter of this puzzle, there doesn’t … Read more >>
Familiar setter for a Friday. Fairly straightforward puzzle with just a couple of clues holding me up from a quick solve. Thanks Bradman.
The puzzle may be found at https://www.theguardian.com/crosswords/cryptic/27769.
Philistine breezes in to cheer another wet and windy day. This was all pretty straightforward, apart from one more tricksy piece of parsing – once again proving that a puzzle doesn’t need to … Read more >>
It’s Thursday, so we can expect a difficult crossword Nimrod has given us what we expect … and more. I found this one of the hardest crosswords I have solved … Read more >>
A slow burner from Neo.
Prize puzzle from the Weekend FT of March 3, 2019
PeeDee has had to go out unexpectedly so I am a late stand-in for this enjoyable puzzle from Julius. Unfortunately there is one clue (25ac) that I cannot fully explain so I hope … Read more >>
Loglady is new to me, which is not surprising since he/she has almost always appeared in the IoS, which I don’t see. Glad to have made the acquaintance: to begin with my impression was that this was an easy new setter, as the first answers went in quickly, but I ground to a halt and was defeated by 6dn. On the way there were some very good clues (1dn, 8dn).
Definitions underlined, in maroon. Anagram indicators in italics.
Very fun with some very smooth and tricky surfaces. Favourites included 25ac, 3dn, 13dn, and 22dn. Many thanks to Brendan
A setter new to the Inquisitor, and who, as it happens, is ‘in partnership’ with the editor. (It turns out that she is not the setter, but that it was some “Mr H”. … Read more >>
Apologies for this very late blog. This wasn’t that easy, as there some definitions that were uncommon, and quite a few double definitions. Thanks to Hamilton. Definitions are underlined in the clues. Across … Read more >>
A gentle workout from Brummie today, with quite a few rather obvious clues. No (obvious) theme that I can see, though I’m ready to be enlightened… Thanks to Brummie. And indeed there is … Read more >>
An enjoyable puzzle from Vigo today. We rattled through the top half extremely quickly but then slowed down.
I found this to be one of those slightly frustrating puzzles where you fly through 90% of it, only to end up completely stumped by a couple of clues where you have all the crossing letters but it doesn’t help.