Never knowingly undersolved
The Indy regular Tees has provided today’s puzzle for our delectation. I found this to be a medium-difficulty puzzle where I was able to complete the grid unaided but needed to dig around … Read more >>
A fun and tricky solve with a lot of parsing still to do at the end.
All very straightforward, as one would expect from this setter, but if anything needs further explanation please just ask. . . Across 1 Understand leader of faction, in briefly (6) FATHOM – F[action] … Read more >>
Due to the number of times during recent months that a valid entry has been rejected, I have disabled the Captcha plugin, so you will no longer need to complete a Captcha when … Read more >>
A bank holiday Monday offering from Crux
A request to step in as holiday cover for a fellow blogger, willingly agreed to. Then it turns out to be Anto. Ah well, other forms of Bank Holiday entertainment are available. … Read more >>
Pasquale’s first appearance in the post-Rufus Monday slot finds him in very benign mood: after a single pass through the clues I had only a handful of gaps. Nevertheless the clear and accurate … Read more >>
A crossword that I liked very much, full of silky smooth clues.
A hint of a nod to the Royal Wedding, with ‘Harry’ and ‘Markle’ both making an appearance in the clues…is Cyclops getting a bit soft in his (presumably/relatively) old age?… …and some American … Read more >>
Good stuff from Hypnos once again. Largely raced through this one, though the grid didn’t help a great deal, being one of those that’s quite thoroughly divided into four discrete areas. There were … Read more >>
A special from Azed this week, with a hidden quotation to be revealed by finding which letters have been omitted from the across answers and which added to the down answers.
The puzzle may be found at https://www.theguardian.com/crosswords/everyman/3736.
This was a good Saturday challenge from the slithery one. We found most of the clues rather easier than we would have expected from Serpent, but there were a few that had … Read more >>
Having [unusually] had two consecutive Saturdays without a Paul puzzle has caused a blip in the synchronicity with my monthly blogs that I’ve mentioned several times lately. I think it was Arachne’s request … Read more >>
‘The grid illustrates a pioneering feat. The unclued entry must be left blank initially, and the grid completed by filling it with the name of the PIONEER. Solvers must also enter the same single letter into the two barred-off cells, highlight two points of interest in the grid, and connect them with a curved line (running through the term he
coined). Having disliked a term already in use, solvers must remove four letters from the grid (cryptically signifying the term itself). The final grid contains only real words; Chambers Dictionary (2016) is recommended, but does not contain the plural form at 32.”