Never knowingly undersolved
Dac is where he belongs this week, occupying the Wednesday compiling slot. I found this particular puzzle to be towards the easy end of the Dac spectrum and made swift progress through it. … Read more >>
The puzzle may be found at https://www.theguardian.com/crosswords/cryptic/27037.
. . . toil and trouble indeed! The rubric read: Each row and each column is referenced by either of two letters – A or B, C or D, etc. Cells are indicated … Read more >>
Not too hard this morning but awkward in spots, I thought.
It’s less than a week since Brendan’s last appearance – but I’m certainly not complaining! A puzzle right up my street, based on one of my favourite Shakespeare plays, the 5,24 that superstition … Read more >>
Alchemi gives us a topical offering today. Unless you have been hiding away in some CATACOMBS [25 across] for months, nay years, you will be aware that the American Presidential … Read more >>
Another Monday, another Quiptic from Anto. Abbreviations cd cryptic definition dd double definition (xxxx)* anagram anagrind = anagram indicator [x] letters removed definitions are underlined Across 8 Banal description … Read more >>
A lovely crisp sunny morning to do a crossword
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A puzzle centred on the phrase “Bloody difficult woman”. Ken Clarke’s observation <link> which was caught on mic during this summer’s Tory leadership non-election. I imagine as soon as the story broke Cyclops delighting in using … Read more >>
The usual smooth offering from Everyman today which results in my having little to say. No cryptic definitions, which will no doubt please some people, and only a couple of double definitions, so … Read more >>
There are two typos in this crossword: Edinburgh is spelled Edinburg at 11ac, and 34ac is numbered as 24ac. Obvious mistakes of course, not likely to detain anyone, but when the standard of proof-reading falls like this, if you can’t at first solve a clue then you begin to wonder if there is a typo in it. Not something one normally sees in Azed’s crosswords — how he generally maintains such high standards of accuracy without so far as I know having any sort of crossword editor to pick up on things is impressive.
(I wrote this before discovering that there is a third typo: The first word of the clue for 4dn is meant to be Chain not Cain. And here at last we have a mistake which does actually cause a waste of time (in my case, because I was doing the blog, considerable).)
The usual: sound clueing, impossibly difficult words whose very existence keeps surprising me, one or two excellent clues, and as so often one (4dn) whose explanation is beyond me (at least it was, until the typo was pointed out).
Definitions underlined and in maroon.
Daedalus and I bump into one another again on a Sunday morning. Abbreviations cd cryptic definition dd double definition (xxxx)* anagram anagrind = anagram indicator [x] letter(s) removed definitions are … Read more >>
What flight of fancy will Puck – the mischievous, fun-loving sprite from ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ – take us on with Genius 160?… Well thankfully, for your correspondent at least, this was a … Read more >>
Sorry about the late post; it’s been a very busy week. This was a fun puzzle from Brummie, with a nice theme of … … the BEACH BOYS (9, 26a), and their songs. … Read more >>