Never knowingly undersolved
… (optional Friday evening and Sunday lunch, 1,2 or 3 nights).
Is this a good date? If so, please confirm below then Jane and I will go ahead and organise it. Half-term for the teachers, and it worked in Sheffield this time last year (some bloke’s birthday). We’ll try and get deals for Fri/Sat, Sat/Sun and Fri/Sat/Sun if all approved.
John H. (aka Nimrod, Enigmatist etc)
Well, not much to say today. Chifonie at possibly his mildest.
Not too taxing a puzzle. I welcome those at the beginning of the week.
Nutmeg returns to the Quiptic with a puzzle to get the old grey cells ticking over once again.
Punk today with a fairly gentle, I thought, start to the week.
The puzzle may be found at http://www.theguardian.com/crosswords/cryptic/26335.
Definitely at the easier end of the Beelzebub spectrum. I fairly raced through this, and it might have been an unaided, single-sitting finish had I not had to check a couple in Chambers. … Read more >>
A plain competition puzzle this month after the intricacies of July’s competition.
Everyman on good form this morning. One or two definitions which I thought were a bit imprecise, but otherwise all sound, with some clever anagrams. Abbreviations cd cryptic definition … Read more >>
A good varied crossword with some easy clues and some tricky ones – something for everyone. Thanks Hypnos.
A puzzle with a particularly appropriate theme from Pasquale this week.
A second Nestor in a row for me, in the 5-weekly blogging cycle, and another pleasant solve with some interesting surface readings… My eye drifted down to the bottom of the grid and … Read more >>
A blank grid with no bars or numbers – and one of the longest preambles for a while…is Artix going to be playing games with our heads? That preamble in full: The two … Read more >>
An excellent puzzle from Goliath to get my Friday started. Unfortunately for me, it wasnt easy going and so the solving process (in brief spurts) extended well into the afternoon. This was a nice meaty challenge and now gives me a Turkey with regards to quality challenges over the past three weeks.
It’s Friday today, so it’s almost guaranteed to be a Phi-day! I made pretty steady progress through this one, struggling with 17 and 18 in the SE quadrant and 7, 8 and 11 … Read more >>