Never knowingly undersolved
Prize puzzle from the Weekend FT of September 20, 2014 As usual Mudd gives us a lot of double definitions in this puzzle including two with cryptic definitions that I rather like. My … Read more >>
A very nice puzzle from Gozo.
As always on Wednesdays, which don’t seem to be suffering the upheavals of the other days.
I sometimes wonder whether to feign ignorance of the parsing of some clues, so that people will respond and tell me how they work It’s the only way people will be prompted to post when it’s a Dac day, for everything is so tidy and uncontroversial, although in this one there’s a question about 5dn.
The puzzle may be found at http://www.theguardian.com/crosswords/cryptic/26379
The editor refers to the “IQ debutant Jago“, but, assuming there’s only one setter that goes by that name, he’s produced well over 20 puzzles in the last 40 years for The Listener … Read more >>
A welcome return appearance from Shed. I was lucky enough to blog his last puzzle, a couple of months ago, and said then that we don’t see enough of him. There’s lots of … Read more >>
We found it difficult to get started on the puzzle; it wasn’t until Joyce did her usual trick when she is stuck of looking at some of the last down clues that we … 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.) It’s been some time since I … Read more >>
(Please post comments on ONLY the picture quiz hereinbelow. To post comments on the crossword puzzle, please click here.) It’s been some time since I blogged Neo. Thanks for the renewed acquaintance. And … Read more >>
I seem to have managed to complete this with barely a scribble or a note on the paper, so I assume it must have been fairly smooth going. That said, 10 and 24 … Read more >>
An unexceptionable Quiptic from Moley this morning. Which is what Quiptics are meant to be. Plenty of anagrams to get you going, and generally clear cluing otherwise. A good number of clues with … Read more >>
The editor reverting to form today, giving us a gentle introduction to the week with a well-constructed and clearly-clued puzzle from Raich. Ideal for improving solvers and no doubt a pleasant stroll for … Read more >>
Nothing too tricksy from Rufus, but lots of fun…
Some nice clues from Cyclops this week, with the usual scattering of scurrilous and misleading surface reading. I completed it in the course a a not-very-long bus journey, which indicates that it wasn’t … Read more >>
Sorry Poins old chap, you’ve drawn me yet again and I must admit I found this one quite tough. A week later I still don’t appear to have completed the top left corner … Read more >>