Fifteensquared – Page 985 – Never knowingly undersolved

Independent 8974/eXternal

Mon July 20, 2015 at 7:30 am by Pierre

A sound, workmanlike puzzle from eXternal. And I don’t mean to damn with faint praise when I say that. It was hard, though. The idea of the Monday Indy being the ‘easy’ one … Read more >>

Guardian Quiptic 818/Moley

Mon July 20, 2015 at 7:16 am by Pierre

Moley has produced a fine Quiptic for us this morning. Plenty of Easy Annies to get us going, then the rest clearly clued with some lovely surfaces. And as we have remarked many … Read more >>

Private Eye / Cyclops 551 – Brandish spider

Mon July 20, 2015 at 12:01 am by beermagnet

Well over half this puzzle was filled-in by the end of the first pass. I got going again with DISGRACED at 10 which I considered earlier but couldn’t see where the S came from, but … Read more >>

Beelzebub 1323

Sun July 19, 2015 at 1:00 am by Gaufrid

I could very easily copy and paste my preamble from a fortnight ago and simply change the ‘four weeks’ in the second paragraph to ‘six weeks’. Across 1 Actual tact not using force … Read more >>

Everyman 3,588

Sun July 19, 2015 at 12:05 am by Matt

Good crossword, that had me stumped in several places.

Independent on Sunday 1325 Hypnos

Mon July 20, 2015 at 2:55 amSun July 19, 2015 at 12:01 am by scchua

Perhaps not as difficult (for an IoS puzzle) as in recent weeks. Thanks to Hypnos. Definitions are underlined in the clues. Across 1 Local left in charge of a community (6) PUBLIC : PUB(one … Read more >>

AZED 2,249

Sun July 19, 2015 at 8:31 amSun July 19, 2015 at 12:00 am by PeeDee

I learned some interesting new words this week. Thank you AZED.

Enigmatic Variations No. 1181: Connection by Glow-worm

Sat July 18, 2015 at 1:00 am by Shenanigans

This week, we were greeted with five unclued answers thematically related, plus 15 and 22 hinting at how a “20” should be taken from thirteen clues. A 3×3 block would need highlighting together … Read more >>

Independent 8967 by Radian (Saturday Prize Puzzle 11/07/15)

Sat July 18, 2015 at 12:36 am by Bertandjoyce

A joint effort this week on the blog during a very busy week so if there are errors or omissions we won’t know who to blame. Joyce’s elderly father has not been well and … Read more >>

Guardian 26,621 / Paul

Sat July 18, 2015 at 12:01 am by mhl

A very enjoyable prize puzzle from Paul … … with a theme of Presidents of the USA. Here are the references I spotted: Obama in 9 across Carter in 10 across Eisenhower in … Read more >>

Financial Times 14,985 by CHALMIE

Fri July 17, 2015 at 2:31 pm by Turbolegs

Nearly forgot to get the blog out as today is a holiday in Singapore and I was going about my day in Saturday mode before it struck me late evening that I am not a time traveler. I really wish I had taken this on, on time so that I could have done justice to Chalmie. In my unnecessary haste to solve this quickly and put it up, I had to use google sooner than I would have liked to for some of the answers. I do think that this puzzle from Chalmie only goes to reinforce the opinion that he is one setter guaranteed to serve up a stunner of a crossword. Thanks a ton to him.