Never knowingly undersolved
Punk makes one of his infrequent appearances today There are a few words and phrases in the grid that are to be found in the Urban Dictionary. Welcome to the … Read more >>
A pleasant vanilla crossword with a good variety of clues. Thanks, FLIMSY
Monday Prize Crossword / Oct 19, 2015
Since giving up his Everyman job (in the Observer) Falcon has become a Monday regular in the FT, although appearing less frequently than Dante or Crux, say.
Prize puzzle from the Weekend FT of October 17, 2015
I’m glad to see Monk puzzles appearing on Wednesdays again. I have never seen a bad one, always a peasure to solve and blog. Thanks Monk.
Today sees the apparently now-regular appearance of Quixote on the last Wednesday of the month. As always, an enjoyable solve with no particular problems, although I didn’t find this so easy as I do the usual Wednesday setter. The obligatory (?) couple of unusual words are here, although they are clued, as indeed should be the case in these circumstances, simply.
Definitions underlined.
After Crucible’s toughie yesterday, today it’s the Turn of the Screw – another tough challenge. I thoroughly enjoyed this puzzle, which is full of inventive cluing and really innovative definitions, with lots of … Read more >>
We’ve seen Radler about once a year since his debut in 2013 (theme: QUARKs). Preamble: Eight clues lead to answers that are the wrong size: they must be used to fill the … Read more >>
Found this very tough all the way through, but with plenty to enjoy – my favourite was 9dn. Thanks, Crucible.
We found this a tricky solve today, with some very crafty misdirections, and one or two solutions that needed a bit of research to check. However, the wordplay was very fair when we’d … 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.) Thanks to Dante for the usual … Read more >>
(Please post comments on ONLY the picture quiz hereinbelow. To post comments on the crossword puzzle, please click here.) Thanks to Dante for the usual staple of anagrams, double and cryptic definitions (and … Read more >>
Thanks to Gaufrid for stepping in!
I have switched phones and had apparently turned off email updates, alarms, and notifications (although not the messages every five minutes suggesting I buy extras)!
Appropriately, the phone I’m (mis)using is the new Bond phone. There’s obviously the possibility of a Bond reference in the title, especially when there’s a Bond film coming out soon (actually, it’s out now), but is it actually Bond-related?
Pan always gives us a sound Quiptic, and that was the case this morning. One or two trickier ones, and a not entirely helpful grid for an entry-level puzzle, but it was all … Read more >>