Never knowingly undersolved
() = abbreviation e.g. a(mpere) hom = homophone [] = letters removed An interesting puzzle from Hoskins which has a NINA (right and left side of puzzle), which you appear to have to … Read more >>
Enjoyed this, with 23ac and 15dn particular favourites. Thanks, Rufus.
A relatively gentle Cyclops puzzle, in preparation for the Christmas special. Good luck to Beermagnet for blogging that one. What more is there to say, except to wish everyone a great Christmas and … Read more >>
To me, at any rate a much harder than usual Everyman
A nice Sunday workout from Crosophile this week. I’d perhaps have got through it quicker had I not been so slow to spot the anagram in the long 16 across. 15 down also … Read more >>
Unlike the last Beelzebub that I blogged, I found this one a little tricky (meiosis!) in places, particularly the SE corner which contained my last entries. The crossing 28ac and 24dn caused a … Read more >>
An Azed plain puzzle this week This was a fairly typical Azed. The entries were the usual result of Azed’s trawl through the dictionary looking for a mix of well … Read more >>
Well a busy time of year – so it would be nice for a nice gentle puzzle to relax on a Saturday. Then I read the words “By Bannsider” – not much hope … Read more >>
Quite an ominous title this week!
There are extra letters in across clues that indicate how additional words in some down clues must be treated. That’s about all the clue we have to the theme.
Very enjoyable, as always. Thank you Arachne.
Not too taxing a puzzle from Paul today, with a number of anagrams, insertions, double definitions and charades to help things along. Thanks to him for being fairly gentle at a busy time … Read more >>
This is Phi’s final Friday puzzle before Christmas so there might be a message in it. One of Phi’s more obvious messages today albeit in foreign languages (unless you speak … Read more >>
An easy (mostly!) offering from Orense, thanks to whom for bringing the work week to a gentle close for FT solvers. Smooth cluing with just that little bit of annoyingly frustrating clues that kept me away from a speeder finish.
Klingsor always produces good crosswords and this is no exception. A whole lot of well-crafted clues and a difficulty level set (unwittingly perhaps) just high enough but not impossibly high.
I don’t think Klingsor does themes. Perhaps he does, and I’ll look silly for missing something obvious.
Definitions underlined.
Straightforward, but very satisfying.