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.
Independent 10,169 by Phi
It’s Phi-day again and this week, we found his puzzle rather trickier than usual.
Independent 10,168 / Serpent
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 >>
Financial Times 16,168 by ALBERICH
Alberich provides this morning’s FT puzzle.
Guardian Cryptic 27,822 by Qaos
The puzzle may be found at https://www.theguardian.com/crosswords/cryptic/27822.
Financial Times 16,158 by Mudd
Prize puzzle from the Weekend FT of May 4, 2019
Financial Times 16,167 by GOZO
A themed puzzle as usual from Gozo.
Guardian 27,821 / Nutmeg
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 >>
Independent 10167 / Eccles
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 >>
Inquisitor 1593: Mirror Image II by Serpent
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 >>
Financial Times 16,166 by ORENSE
A jolly enough Tuesday offering, with the odd flash of wit to brighten our day.
Independent 10,166 by Crosophile
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.
Guardian Cryptic 27,820 by Vlad
Fun to solve and tricky to parse and blog. Favourites 13ac, 14ac, 18dn, as well as 27ac/8dn/17dn. Thanks to Vlad.
Guardian Quiptic 1,017 / Matilda
The scheduled blogger is unwell and unable to post today so here is an analysis of the clues. I will leave it to others to provide a commentary. . Across 1 Deposit a … Read more >>
Independent 10165 by Filbert
An absorbing puzzle with some difficult clues.