Never knowingly undersolved
Back in early May I published a post containing some feedback from Kathryn Friedlander and Philip Fine of Buckingham University regarding their cryptic crossword research which included a link to the published results. … Read more >>
The ‘Accommodation’ post can be found here.
A message from John Henderson:
Thank you for the excellent response to my “Show of Hands” posting. It’s time now to start putting together numbers for both parts of the event…
A suggestion from John Henderson:
A typical Peto puzzle.
(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.) Not that hard, as it turned … Read more >>
(Please post comments on ONLY the picture quiz hereinbelow. To post comments on the crossword puzzle, please click here.) Not that hard, as it turned out. Thanks to Pasquale. Definitions are underlined in … Read more >>
Morph supplies the Thursday puzzle this week. It’s good to see a crossword where the definitions are not just lifted straight out of the dictionary. I enjoyed this. There were … Read more >>
Monday Prize Crossword / Aug 22, 2016
Once again, a Dante puzzle that wasn’t a write-in and one that took me significantly longer than the Rufus of that day.
Prize puzzle from the Weekend FT of August 20, 2016
I found this trickier than the Monk puzzles I have blogged recently. Sometimes I was fooled by the definitions, sometimes it was convoluted constructions, other times unfamiliar words. In the end they were all solveable/guessable which is how it should be. Thanks Monk for another super puzzle.
I hope this means that Dac is becoming restored to his former health, because he has appeared today and also last week. I was under the impression that he had been unwell and was now only going to be doing every other week. If that was wrong then I’m sure everyone welcomes him back with open arms.
After a crossword last week that was arguably one of Dac’s less imaginative and elegant productions (that at least was the verdict of some of those posting here) he is right back to form: smooth surfaces and the whole thing satisfactory and (apart perhaps from 23ac) uncontroversial. The only thing militating against the surfaces is the unusually large number (for Dac) of clues that cross-reference some other clue.
Definitions underlined and in maroon.
The puzzle may be found at https://www.theguardian.com/crosswords/cryptic/26977.
Due to Holy Ghost’s holidays and a swap of blogging duties this week and next week, I find myself blogging an Ifor Inquisitor for the second time in a few weeks. Not that … Read more >>
Teachers here are going back after the holidays for a Teacher Day and I no longer have to! 😉 And what better way to celebrate, than with a puzzle from Arachne? This is … Read more >>
Well – a nostalgic theme from Kairos today. This brought back memories of ‘Children’s Favourites’ from the 1950s – a ‘cumulative’ song recorded by Burl Ives which regularly featured on the programme. Click … Read more >>