Never knowingly undersolved
The blogging cycle brings me Serpent again which is no bad thing. Serpent has brought some innovation to the puzzles done so far both in terms of themes and clueing, and the same … Read more >>
‘Special instructions’ always cause me a bit of a flutter, especially if I’m blogging. Here, they were ‘Twelve solutions contain related objects, not further defined in their clues’. This seemed quite straightforward – … Read more >>
Happy New year – this week’s offering from Artix has 3 columns to complete – based on an actor to be found to complete the initial grid then amendments to show the actor’s … Read more >>
A very unusual grid in that there are only 22 answers, the fewest I’ve ever seen in a daily cryptic. I’m running a bit late today and wondered why I seem to have caught up: obvious why, with so little for me to do.
Enjoyable and utterly satisfactory as always. So many answers that initially gave difficulty proved to be very simple in hindsight.
Definitions underlined and in maroon.
A fairly typical offering from Pasquale today, perhaps a little less challenging than he can be but with the obligatory one or two less familiar words, meticulously clued. I don’t always find a … Read more >>
A challenging opener to Fridays of the New Year from Alberich, thanks to whom for providing a riveting session of mental gymnastics this morning. Did have a couple of words that I needed to clarify with google.
This the first Wiglaf puzzle we have blogged. We have enjoyed all his previous offerings, including his IQs, so we really looked forward to this one – and we weren’t disappointed. We found … Read more >>
Some relief from some of the festive difficulty
Admittedly vague memories of The Winter’s Tale…
Prize puzzle from the Weekend FT of December 24, 2016 I was pleased to find that this year’s Christmas puzzle is a traditional cryptic and not one where one has to build a … Read more >>
Merry Christmas, everyone! I’ve been lucky enough to draw the task of blogging the Christmas alphabetical crossword by Maskarade. The theme is popular bands or singers. Some of these are just surnames (or … Read more >>
Dac has supplied the first Wednesday puzzle of the year, as he has doubtless done on many previous occasions. This was a rather gentle introduction to solving and blogging in 2017 for me. … Read more >>
Not too easy, not too hard, just right. Thank you Neo.
Nutmeg can be quite a tricky setter when she wants to be, and I found myself making slow but steady progress with this one. (The fact that there are a lot of long … Read more >>
Preamble: Once upon a time there were three innocent bloggers whose names were Hi Ho and Ba. They were set upon by an unscrupulous and extremely cunning setter. This setter produced a crossword … Read more >>