Never knowingly undersolved
Not a super-friendly grid today, but a sound enough Quiptic from Pan. Abbreviations cd cryptic definition dd double definition (xxxx)* anagram anagrind = anagram indicator [x] letter(s) removed definitions are … Read more >>
…or ‘One No-Trump’, maybe, as I think this is the first Cyclops in a while not to mention the orange-skinned self-publicist…thank goodness the US election is over, and we won’t have to worry … Read more >>
As per usual a classy smooth Everyman
A standard plain puzzle from Azed today. I made steady progress through this one with the usual help from Chambers dictionary. As usual I learnt an obscure meaning of an … Read more >>
I struggled a bit with this. I spent a lot of time looking up familiar words in the dictionary thinking “but does it really mean that?”. Of course in every case the dictionary agreed with Kairos that it did, so well done Kairos!
Another new (to me, at least) setter…I seem to have been saying this a lot recently, which can only be a good thing! I can’t find any previous Maize puzzles on this site, … Read more >>
The preamble tells us to ‘demand PROTECTION’ (capitalised – although that isn’t the given title?). No answer lengths are given, but we are told that ‘[a]ll cells must be filled such that all entries are real words’, so presumably some answers will be too short for their spaces? We also have to write ‘the theme word’ under the grid – a word that we’re told can be formed from the added letters.
A themed puzzle from Paul. I couln’t resist adding a few pictures to this one. Thanks Paul.
Another message from Puck:
The 2017 3D Crossword Calendar is now available, and would make an ideal Christmas present for either yourself (go on, put it on that list!) or for someone else you know that is into crosswords.
A largely straightforward puzzle from Bradman save for a few clues which expanded my vocabulary. Many thanks Don !!
Vlad at his trickiest! With a completely empty grid after my first pass through the clues I thought I was going to struggle with this one, and so it proved, but I got … Read more >>
With Phi you are always looking for a theme or a message The only thing that strikes me this week is that there are a few names contained within the across … Read more >>
It would seem that loonapick, the scheduled blogger, is out of the country for longer than the two weeks that I originally agreed to cover for him. Either that or something else has prevented … Read more >>
Nestor is often difficult, and this was no exception. But as it should be — one looks back when parsing a clue and says “well that really wasn’t too hard”. There are some quite outstanding clues here and the fact that they took me a long time to solve didn’t detract from the enjoyment.
The puzzle may be found at https://www.theguardian.com/crosswords/cryptic/27044.