Never knowingly undersolved
I have the honour of blogging Gemelo’s first puzzle in The Observer, and very nice it is too: fairly similar in difficulty to Azed and the clues are so far as I can see sound, with pleasantly convincing surfaces. The only apparent difference from Azed is that two of the answers have all their letters checked, something I don’t remember from Azed.
Definitions in crimson, underlined. Anagram indicators in italics. Anagrams indicated *(like this) or (like this)*.
A nice crossword from Everyman with all the usual features, which have been coloured. I imagine poor old Everyman every week thinking “what’s a long word or phrase which has the same number of letters as another one and rhymes or has some other connection with it?” and to manage to find a suitable pair is quite impressive. Many thanks to a friend of mine who explained two where I was lost.
Definitions in crimson, underlined. Indicators (homophone, anagram, hidden, reversal, etc) in italics. Anagrams indicated (like this)* or *(like this). Link-words — and there aren’t many of them, a sign of good setting — in green.
Hello, hello. What have we got here then.
Detective Beermagnet is on the case and will reveal who done it below …
This week’s 11 x 11 crossword from the Guardian, intended to teach cryptic crosswords, found here
A bit of crudeness and a couple of references to the orange one. Yes, this is an Eye puzzle.
It is a Paul Prize Puzzle but, on a quick first inspection, no multi-light clues or cross-referencing…something strange must be afoot…
I wasn’t expecting this – it’s only three weeks since Enigmatist’s last appearance.
As usual for a Friday Independent cryptic crossword, we have a puzzle from Phi
A light workout from XELA this Friday.
A nice mix of clues and difficulties. My favourites were 15ac, 14dn, and 17dn. Thanks to Brummie for the puzzle
Nice to meet Methuselah again – he hasn’t coincided with my blogging schedule for a few months.
Neo is the FT setter today.
“Four notable examples of a LOW RIDER are given by initial letters of single redundant words in each across clue in alphabetical order of their answers. A thematic quotation and its originator runs clockwise around the perimeter starting at the top left cell. Solvers must highlight the LOW RIDER (nine contiguous cells) in the final grid, at a stretch illustrating one of the four examples in motion.
Eccles in his usual Wednesday slot. No complaints here.