Never knowingly undersolved
Prize puzzle from the Weekend FT of December 24, 2016 I was pleased to find that this year’s Christmas puzzle is a traditional cryptic and not one where one has to build a … Read more >>
Merry Christmas, everyone! I’ve been lucky enough to draw the task of blogging the Christmas alphabetical crossword by Maskarade. The theme is popular bands or singers. Some of these are just surnames (or … Read more >>
Dac has supplied the first Wednesday puzzle of the year, as he has doubtless done on many previous occasions. This was a rather gentle introduction to solving and blogging in 2017 for me. … Read more >>
Not too easy, not too hard, just right. Thank you Neo.
Nutmeg can be quite a tricky setter when she wants to be, and I found myself making slow but steady progress with this one. (The fact that there are a lot of long … Read more >>
Preamble: Once upon a time there were three innocent bloggers whose names were Hi Ho and Ba. They were set upon by an unscrupulous and extremely cunning setter. This setter produced a crossword … Read more >>
If I were clever enough I’d write this blog in rhyme
But as it happens I don’t have time
Thanks to Scorpion I have a good challenge for my first blog of 2017 The puzzle is a pangram. For a while I thought it was going to be a … Read more >>
A very late appearance of this on the Indy website means the blog has been considerably delayed. It’s not giving too much away to say there was a theme of cities.
A tricky little number from Hectence to start the New Year. Apologies for the late blog, but it did take me a while to sort it all out. And I’ve also got the … Read more >>
The puzzle may be found at https://www.theguardian.com/crosswords/cryptic/27083.
So playfair puzzles aren’t my favourite cup of tea. Fortunately, my colleague Frank Yellin doesn’t mind them and has a bunch of python code to prove it (we are both Jewish so had plenty of time on our hands this week). So he helped me no end figuring out the actual magic square — which this time had no Q rather than the more usual I/J merging (to produce 25 letters of the alphabet in a 5×5 grid).
Puzzles 1472 – 1523
Well, we have come to the start of another year (where did the last one go, it only seems like a few months since I was last writing one of these posts!). I … Read more >>
Happy New Year! There we go, I’ve used my one exclamation mark for 2017. This was an interesting, and tough, puzzle to start us off in the Sindy for 2017. Sherlock appears to … Read more >>