Never knowingly undersolved
PeeDee’s holiday has given me the chance to return to what used to be my regular Wednesday FT slot (many years ago now!). A steady solve for me with no hold-ups or head … Read more >>
Not too difficult and nicely clued. Favourites 3dn and 14dn – thanks, Chifonie.
An Eclogue puzzle – something to look forward to. Preamble: In clue order, corrections to definition misprints give a quotation completed by the thematic puzzle title. The name of the work from … Read more >>
Rather to my surprise, I got through about half of this pretty quickly, but then slowed down a lot, and almost ground to the halt for the last few. No obvious theme that … Read more >>
It seems a while since we last blogged a Crosophile and we always enjoy his puzzles as there’s invariably something going on in the grid. In this case, there’s a nina round three … Read more >>
A quick solve this morning with plenty of familiar crossword constructions.
Standard Rufus fare
Monday again and my second Wiglaf in his third Daily Indy crossword.
One or two rather remote synonyms, I thought, but generally a sound Quiptic to get us started on the cruciverbal week. Abbreviations cd cryptic definition dd double definition … Read more >>
Not for the first time, I am blogging a Cyclops when many of the references in it seem weirdly out of date. A lot has happened, and a lot has changed — nearly … Read more >>
I don’t normally solve the IoS (I’ve only done so today because the scheduled blogger is away) so cannot say how this one compares with others in the series or with previous Hypnos cryptics. … Read more >>
Not much to say other than here’s this week’s Everyman
The Instructions: Eleven clues are identically deficient in their cryptic component, reflecting the passing of the solution to one of them. We seem to have another gremlin in this month’s Genius. We printed … Read more >>
As always Azed provides a masterclass in clueing: not always the most riveting surfaces or constructions, but everything utterly sound.
Definitions underlined and in maroon.
To adapt a well-worn and topical football cliché, Nimrod would probably be the first name on the Indy (or any other) crossword editor’s ‘team sheet’…and to quote the Monty Python team in their (admittedly … Read more >>