Never knowingly undersolved
A non-word title and a long complex rubric. I feared I was in for a long haul. Solvers must attempt to divide the clues to find two groups. In one group, whose answers … Read more >>
Tough stuff for a Tuesday, I thought.
Radian is a regular Tuesday setter in the Independent series I know from experience that Radian has a tendency to put words in the grid that are drawn from speeches … Read more >>
I made slow but (fairly) steady progress with this, with some tricky parsings and, as expected from this setter, a few answers that are on the obscure side. Thanks to Pasquale … Read more >>
Nice easy start to Monday from Armonie.
Witty entertainment from Tees. A few obscure words and names, but clearly clued.
A puzzle for those of you who want a gentle start to the week.
The last Anto I blogged was an okay Quiptic, but this was, in my view, back to the bad old days when the feedback in the comments section on this setter’s offerings was … Read more >>
The Observer crossword from May 12, 2019
The good news is that this crossword had a similar feel as recent Everyman crosswords and, therefore, it looks like some consistency has set in.
A doable puzzle with quite a few anagrams to make life easier for beginning solvers.
I wasn’t sure I had blogged a Loglady puzzle before, so I checked the archive and found that I had, a while ago. I wrote in that blog that I enjoyed it, and … Read more >>
Is this an Azed I see before me?
Apologies again for the late posting – an enjoyable (and significant?) puzzle from Klingsor today… I woke up a tad worse for wear this morning, after celebrating cycling coast-to-coast across Lancashire and Yorkshire … Read more >>
A Sunday in May and a tussle with Kruger. 12 misprints to find to reveal the start of a quote. Then some clashes to resolve to find the originator. Then some other entries … Read more >>
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 >>