Never knowingly undersolved
What kind of ‘qualities’ of which type of ‘stars’ is Kcit presenting for our enjoyment here? Celestial bodies, sporting stars, movie stars – or the kind of sub-lebrity flotsam that washes up on the … Read more >>
Just the usual from Alberich … innovative, riveting and an excellent cliffhanger of an experience. Need i say more …
After the recent announcement about the Indy’s exclusively online future, it is hard to know what future lies in store for its crosswords. I for one have my fingers and toes crossed that … Read more >>
The puzzle may be found at https://www.theguardian.com/crosswords/cryptic/26811.
An enjoyable challenge with some great surfaces.
A clever themed puzzle from Boatman, with some intricate wordplay and some ‘innovative’ anagram indicators, together with some, for me, rather loose definitions. I think there may be some protests about obscurity or … Read more >>
I always find Tees’ puzzles a challenge, but an entertaining challenge. The allusions in Tees’ clues tend to focus on topics that don’t play to any strengths I may have. … Read more >>
Monday Prize Crossword / Feb 8, 2016
Falcon – so it’s clear what you’ll get. A gentle, well clued crossword with a bit of film and music thrown in to it.
Prize puzzle from the Weekend FT of February 6, 2016
As usual from Dac. I think this was on the easy side — I didn’t time myself but had no problems and by my standards sailed through it. Which isn’t to denigrate it: it’s well up to the level we have come to expect from this setter.
Definitions underlined and in SaddleBrown today. As usual I had to make amendments so 15ac and 22dn aren’t quite the right colour.
Super puzzle from Gozo. Thank you.
Lots of tricky bits here, and quite a few answers entered in before they were fully parsed. Favourites 27ac, 29ac and 6dn. Thanks Shed.
By my reckoning, Inquisitor 1431 will appear on Easter Saturday in the final print edition of the Independent – kenmac is scheduled to do the honours with the blog. To support the case … Read more >>
I was a little apprehensive on seeing this puzzle as I had forgotten it was my turn to blog and so had to solve and explain all in a hurry. Fortunately the puzzle was not as difficult as it appeared to be from reading the instructions. Thank you Azed.
Once again the crossword has not (yet) been published properly on the Guardian website, though fortunately for me the PDF version is available here. After that difficulty, I had to struggle with Vlad, … Read more >>