Never knowingly undersolved
After Crucible’s toughie yesterday, today it’s the Turn of the Screw – another tough challenge. I thoroughly enjoyed this puzzle, which is full of inventive cluing and really innovative definitions, with lots of … Read more >>
We’ve seen Radler about once a year since his debut in 2013 (theme: QUARKs). Preamble: Eight clues lead to answers that are the wrong size: they must be used to fill the … Read more >>
Found this very tough all the way through, but with plenty to enjoy – my favourite was 9dn. Thanks, Crucible.
We found this a tricky solve today, with some very crafty misdirections, and one or two solutions that needed a bit of research to check. However, the wordplay was very fair when we’d … Read more >>
(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 >>