Never knowingly undersolved
Hectence is one of the longest-standing setters of the Quiptic, and she has compiled, as always, an elegant, tractable, and pleasing puzzle for us this morning. The blog, as always, is aimed at … Read more >>
Chifonie provides our Monday morning wake-up call: enough to get the brain working, but nothing too taxing.
Another Tees cryptic to start the Indy week. Always a pleasure to solve and blog, and I always learn something. Abbreviations cd cryptic definition dd double definition cad … Read more >>
The Observer crossword from Mar 17, 2019
Another Everyman crossword that, luckily, didn’t frighten the horses.
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.