Never knowingly undersolved
(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 >>
A very quick solve for me today, with the exception of 4d, which held me up at the end. Fewer cryptic definitions than usual, I think, which helps; the ones we do have … Read more >>
It’s Friday and I am trying to get this finished and scheduled in preparation for the York Sloggers & Betters weekend, so I don’t miss the Sunday session like I did last year. … Read more >>
It’s always nice to draw a puzzle from our friend and Fifteensquared alumnus Raich. Having had to blog an Anax on the same weekend, it was a relief that this perhaps wasn’t the … Read more >>
This one was over rather quickly but I cannot explain why, it’s not as if there are no obscure words or complex wordplay in it. Perhaps I was just on song because around … Read more >>
This is something Azed only occasionally does, to have one of his specials on a non-clue-setting-competition day. I don’t know how many solvers there are who do the n-c-s-c puzzles but not the c-s-c ones, … Read more >>
It’s always a pleasure to open the paper and see Anax’s name at the top of the puzzle. That’s no less true on blogging day, of course, though you do fear you might … Read more >>
This is the second tricky prize puzzle from Paul I have blogged recently. I think his weekend puzzles are getting harder. Not so many laughs as some of his puzzles but lots to enjoy regardless. Thanks Paul.
Qaos rounds off an excellent week of Guardian puzzles. I always look for a ghost theme with Qaos: I thought it was going to be food, with POULTRY, BREAD, PUDDING and GARLIC, but … Read more >>
Another terrific challenge from Wanderer, thanks to whom, for a pleasurable and delightfully interesting joust. Fantastically cryptic clues liberally sprinkled with a touch of commonplace door-openers as well.