Never knowingly undersolved
A fairly straightforward prize puzzle on the whole, I thought, though I had some trouble with 1d and 11a,2a. Lots to enjoy and appreciate here! Thanks, Paul. Across 1. Sad feeling, Brexit dealer … Read more >>
Thanks to Paul for a challenging puzzle, solving as well as parsing. There is one that I could only partially parse, so I’ll need someone to fill in the blanks please. Definitions are … Read more >>
A riveting challenge from WANDERER that left me feeling short on both my solve as well as my vocabulary. Needed help from the interwebs to bring this home.
It’s Phi-day again and this week, we found his puzzle rather trickier than usual.
Serpent has set today’s crossword for our mid-week delectation. I found this a hard puzzle to make inroads into and had an almost empty grid for a good while. Once I got started, … Read more >>
Alberich provides this morning’s FT puzzle.
The puzzle may be found at https://www.theguardian.com/crosswords/cryptic/27822.
Prize puzzle from the Weekend FT of May 4, 2019
A themed puzzle as usual from Gozo.
My fourth blog of a Nutmeg puzzle in two months – and I’m still not complaining … … but I am running out of things to say. If … Read more >>
Eccles fills the Wednesday slot this week. This is a good solid crossword with a few words that are probably not in everyday use by most solvers, but they are … Read more >>
Serpent is a fairly regular Inquisitor setter who always presents a challenge A moderate length preamble this week stated " Clues are presented in conventional order and the grid has … Read more >>
A jolly enough Tuesday offering, with the odd flash of wit to brighten our day.
It’s Tuesday and so I was expecting a stinker. Not so it seems: here is a very pleasant crossword apparently of medium difficulty. Most of the clues can be explained with fairly straightforward parsing. My only slight criticism was the grid, which had two faults in my opinion: two of those dreaded answers where 2 out of 5 letters are checked; and after getting only a few answers one was doing two or more separate crosswords.
Definitions underlined, in maroon. Anagram indicators in italics.
Fun to solve and tricky to parse and blog. Favourites 13ac, 14ac, 18dn, as well as 27ac/8dn/17dn. Thanks to Vlad.