Never knowingly undersolved
Andrew In retrospect a fairly typical Rufus, with lots of cryptic and double definitions, though it seemed a bit harder than usual when I was solving it. Thanks to Rufus] … Read more >>
A fairly typic Vlad experience for me today, where I got off to a good start with some (relatively) easy clues, but then slowed down and took a while to finish off. Even … Read more >>
Good inventive fun as always from Paul, with an outstandingly appropriate anagram at 18,11, though needing a couple of bits of general knowledge that were only just in the category of “stuff I … Read more >>
Qaos commented yesterday that “you’ve a really good one to look forward to tomorrow”, and here it is. As is often the case with Tramp, there are lots of references to a theme … Read more >>
I mostly made quick progress with this, but for some reason ended up havng a lot of trouble with the NE corner. Some of the parsing took a bit of work, but all … Read more >>
It was a great pleasure to find Nutmeg as the setter on my return from a couple of weeks away in the Highlands (thanks to Gaufrid for standing in for me). No need … Read more >>
As seems to happen with monotonous regularity with the Genius, the first challenge was to get hold a usable copy of the puzzle. First the “printable version” link led to a blank grid … Read more >>
Mostly quite gentle by this setter’s standards, with some very easy clues to get us started, but also some trickier ones,
Setters continue to be inspired by the UK political situation… …specifically in this case mostly by Theresa May, and other meanings of her surname. I found this quite hard, with some tricky clueing … Read more >>
This was my quickest Azed solve for quite a while: I found I’d written in 13 answers after my first pass though the clues, and most of the rest followed easily (albeit with … Read more >>
Only a couple of double definitions today, but otherwise a fairly standard Rufus, with eight cryptic definitions. I found it very easy even by his standards. Thanks to Rufus. … Read more >>
Paul is in cheeky mode today, with several clues using the word “randy”, and various words that rhyme with it. There’s another mini-theme – presumably unrelated – with links to 22a. Good fun … Read more >>
A topical puzzle from Picaroon…
Some good Puckish fun today… … with a bit of a numerical theme around the boundary. I’m baffled by 26a – commenters to the rescue please.. Thanks to Puck … Read more >>
Rather to my surprise, I got through about half of this pretty quickly, but then slowed down a lot, and almost ground to the halt for the last few. No obvious theme that … Read more >>