Never knowingly undersolved
A nice one from Paul, to whom thanks. A couple of tricky definitions held up completion for just a while. Definitions are underlined in the clues. Across 1 Grid filler might stop (5,7) … Read more >>
Not sure how I feel about Orense’s Thursday offering.
Hoskins has given us a puzzle today that I took a while to solve With hindsight I’m not sure why I took so long to solve this as the parsing … Read more >>
Monday Prize Crossword / May 29, 2017
Falcon knows what many Monday solvers want, a nice and easy puzzle.
Prize puzzle from the Weekend FT of May 27, 2017
At the risk of repeating myself… another great puzzle from Monk. Thank you Monk.
Hypnos and I haven’t met for ages and this pleasant simple crossword shows that he hasn’t lost anything. Nothing much to say really: just a whole lot of sound and very satisfactory clues. The Wednesday standard set by Dac is being maintained.
Definitions underlined and in maroon.
The puzzle may be found at https://www.theguardian.com/crosswords/cryptic/27217.
Another Schadenfreude for me to blog; anything to do with Columbus, I wonder, given the number of the puzzle? Preamble: Corrections to single letter misprints in the definition parts of twelve clues … Read more >>
An interesting and absorbing literary offering from Brendan today, with ingenious interweaving of clues and elegant and witty surfaces, as ever. Knowing Brendan, I’m rather worried that there may be more going on … Read more >>
We really enjoyed this Crosophile offering today. The theme became apparent early on, although at first we thought it was based on 1d-ic drinks until we realised that there are a lot … Read more >>
Quick and painless from Crux this morning, though not without some wit and style.
If you were here earlier looking for the blog, you will have seen that I posted a note to say that this morning’s Quiptic had not yet been published on the Grauniad website … Read more >>
The online version of the crossword hasn’t yet appeared, so I’ve had to solve and blog in a bit of a rush. Favourite today was 11dn. Thanks, Rufus.
Edit: the crossword is now available online on the Guardian website
It’s been 2 years since I last blogged an Alchemi and this I found rather tricky in places