Never knowingly undersolved
This week we had an alphabetical jigsaw from Jaques. I have to confess that they’re not my favourite, although I’ve had my fair share to blog at Listen With Others. They generally involve … Read more >>
The honour of blogging the last weekday, dead-tree Indy cryptic puzzle falls to us on this rather sad day. Although the future of the daily cryptic seems reasonably secure in the online version … Read more >>
The puzzle may be found at https://www.theguardian.com/crosswords/cryptic/26841.
It has been a while since I have solved/blogged a puzzle by Tees. I found this one quite a challenge, despite a fair few write-ins at the start. It took me a while … Read more >>
A tough, but generally fair workout.
I really enjoyed this puzzle from Paul – lots of witty clues and, though mostly straightforward, enough of a challenge to keep it interesting. Many thanks, Paul – nice one. Across 5,22 Senior … Read more >>
Monday Prize Crossword / Mar 14, 2016
A bit of an unexciting Dante crossword. No surprises (unlike last time), many double and cryptic definitions.
Prize puzzle from the Weekend FT of March 12, 2016
Io is the master, no doubt about it as far as I am concerned. This time he kindly lets me finish with the grid filled and everything explained. Thank you Io.
I really enjoyed this, and found it quite tough aside from a few clues that went in almost immediately from their definitions. Favourite 16dn.
Dac appears in his regular Wednesday slot this week. For the first time in a while I didn’t struggle with the parsing of any of the entries in this blog. … Read more >>
This is Bics second Inquisitor. His first was number 1390, Verbatim, based on alternate spellings. The preamble told us that in 29 clues, the wordplay leads to the answer and … Read more >>
An unusual occurence for me to blog on a Tuesday. Thanks to Hamilton for a fun puzzle that had me galloping for 90% of the solve time and coming unstuck for the remainder. 🙂
I found this extremely difficult. The clues are all quite understandable once you know the answer, but to get there is often very hard, so far as I can see, there being so many options for the wordplay and the definition.
Definitions in maroon and underlined.
I’d been thinking that some of Chifonie’s recent puzzles had been getting slightly more difficult, but this one is back to his old style, with lots of easy charades and anagrams, so it … Read more >>