Never knowingly undersolved
Phi on Friday as usual The top half of the grid has a lot of wordplay or entry references to parts of the body, ailments and cures but the bottom … Read more >>
Bradman gives us a very easy challenge today. Very straightforward cluing with an unusual number of anagrams I thought. Good fodder for solvers starting on the FT.
This is quite extraordinary: if you ignore the Saturday Prize Puzzles you have to go back to last August before you find a Klingsor that hasn’t been blogged by me. He must be suspecting some collusion amongst the people who organise these things, and must be crying out for someone else. So far as I’m concerned, however, it’s fine: I’d happily blog a Klingsor every time, with a few of the others thrown in for good measure. He always gets it just right — hard enough but he always loses gracefully, after presenting us with some very nice clues.
Definitions underlined. I have settled on maroon for them in my past few blogs as this seems best, but if anyone thinks otherwise then please do say so.
A lovely way to start a Thursday
I don’t I’m ever going to be a fan of Otterden’s puzzles, so I’ll be brief. A few very easy anagrams to get us started, a nice couple of the subtractive anagrams that … Read more >>
Monday Prize Crossword / Mar 28, 2016
Dante and so no surprises at the beginning of another FT week.
Prize puzzle from the Weekend FT of March 26. 2016
A super puzzle from Gozo that I did not find easy. Thank you Gozo.
I got off to a flying start with most of the top half going in quite quickly and thought that this one was going to be easy by Vlad’s standards. However I was … Read more >>
What can we say? It’s the beginning of the month so it’s Dac again with another of his excellent puzzles with their trade-mark great surfaces. We found this fairly straightforward. We had not … Read more >>
Preamble: Other than those already barred off, there are to be no unchecked letters or further bars in the (nonsymmetrical) final grid. For this to happen, solvers must (i) effect six 90º single … Read more >>
I need help parsing two clues here…
You never quite know who you will have to cross cruciverbal swords with on a Tuesday, as the work of numerous compilers is featured on that day of the week. Today’s themed puzzled … Read more >>
The puzzle may be found at https://www.theguardian.com/crosswords/cryptic/26850.
This has been one of those weekends when my weekday and monthly Prize blogs coincide, so this is the third blog in a row from me and I’m prompted to say yet again … Read more >>