Never knowingly undersolved
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
We look forward to a classic solve when we’re tackling a Wednesday Dac, but unfortunately we found this one a little disappointing. However, we can’t quite put a finger on why we feel … Read more >>
Preamble: Misprints occur in 19 down clues. The correct letters spell out most of a quotation from a well-known TV series. Both 6-letter words in the specific episode’s title are to be removed, … Read more >>
It was Wiglaf’s latest puzzle that lay in store for me this Tuesday morning. I found this one to be a very enjoyable, medium-difficulty solve. I suspected early on that I would probably … Read more >>
Thematic fun from Gaff today and I found this one rather tougher than the usual Tuesday fare.
The puzzle may be found at https://www.theguardian.com/crosswords/cryptic/26970.
Here’s Rufus, with an entetaining medley of double and cryptic definitions and some neat anagrams, with lovely surfaces, as ever, to launch us into the week. Thanks, Rufus – I enjoyed it. Across 9 … Read more >>
I have to admit that I found this tough (and I’m not even going to say ‘tough for a Monday puzzle’ because we’ve gone beyond that). But that could just be me not … Read more >>
(Please click here for this same blog but with a picture quiz added. Please do NOT post hereinbelow any comment relating to the picture quiz. Thank you.) This was made easier for me by … Read more >>
(Please post comments on ONLY the picture quiz hereinbelow. To post comments on the crossword puzzle, please click here.) This was made easier for me by the number of anagrams present. Thanks to … Read more >>
I don’t know what’s happened to the scheduled blogger today but here is a quick, and very belated, analysis of the clues. Across 7 Kid is the first person in Paris to get … Read more >>