Never knowingly undersolved
An Azed plain puzzle this week, but it wasn’t all plain sailing for me. When it comes to languages, I am much more comfortable with computer languages than I am … Read more >>
A good puzzle for solvers just starting out or those simply wanting a gentle puzzle post Sunday lunch. I enjoyed this in the latter category. Thank you Sphere.
We don’t see a great deal of Math, and I make this only the third appearance since a welcome return to the Independent this year. This seemed to be on the more tractable … Read more >>
Half of the clues have an extra letter coming from the wordplay, and the other half have an extra letter in the clue itself. The former ‘spell out an interpretation to be placed on the grid. The latter ‘spell out what must be highlighted in the completed grid, and why five of the 17 cells involved must be distinguished from the other 12.’ The completed grid will also have ‘a thematic comment that identifies the distinguishing feature’.
How very curious.
Engaging and fun to solve. I am very impressed how Paul keeps churning out puzzles without becoming predictable and repetitive. How does he do it?Thanks Paul, keep it up!
Very enjoyable, with…
I thought this was a typical Phi puzzle with some excellent clues. I finished this puzzle and thought that there can’t be theme using these entries.. Then I thought, this is … Read more >>
An excellent challenge from Wanderer, keeping in style with earlier offerings. I found the parsing for several clues annoyingly admirable. 🙂 Hunted for the nina without much success.
Tees has been kind to us today. Yes, the odd classical etc reference, but all fairly gentle. I wouldn’t say that I whizzed through this, but certainly it was less daunting than it might have been. And all well-executed, so far as I can see.
Definitions underlined and in maroon.
4 puzzles for the price of one
I don’t know why I was solving this at around 4:30am! Well I do, I awoke early and decided to see who I was going to blog today. Whilst the puzzle was printing, I solved … Read more >>
Monday Prize Crossword / Aug 15, 2016
One can never qualify a Falcon crossword as really hard but this one struck me as relatively challenging compared to most of his output.
Prize puzzle from the Weekend FT of August 13, 2016
A lovely puzzle from Gozo, a pleasure to solve and blog. Thank you.
One for fans of container clues