Never knowingly undersolved
beermagnet During the first half of solving this there seemed to be a large number of anagrams . Then after the half-time orange, I seemed to find charade after charade It was just the … Read more >>
There is the usual swathe of political subject matter in the clues, but besides the grid centring on Jeremy Corbyn, there isn’t much in the answers. Favourite clue must be the long anagram … Read more >>
Is this the first puzzle by Dalibor in the Independent? If so, this was a fine one to open the account. I’m familiar with his puzzles created for the various Sloggers and Betters … Read more >>
Another fairly routine Eye puzzle this time. Nothing hugely topical or interesting to call out. Solving was easy enough for the first pass which ended with much more than half the grid filled: … Read more >>
Yikes! This was hard
I got 6 answers after the first pass of the clues, but 2 of them turned out to be wrong.
… again. There is a central issue in this crossword. Solving was almost a clean sweep. I attempted but failed to cold solve the two down clues in the leftmost column: 1 and … Read more >>
Puzzles by Tyrus are always good – this one is some sort of tour de force Solving was an absolute delight. I had read through all across clues plus half a dozen down … Read more >>
I found this one of the most tricky Eye puzzles for a while. Looking back at it I can’t quite put my finger on why. From the off I had trouble, reading through … Read more >>
I don’t think I’ve ever attempted a Serpent puzzle that disappointed. This one certainly didn’t. Sometimes I look at a blog I’ve done after it’s published and think: Cor blimey. That doesn’t give … Read more >>
A straightforward Cyclops, quickly solved. He’s keeping up his usual standard with only a little bit of mild scatology in this one Across 7 TEEPEE Shelter provided by area of golf course … Read more >>
A tougher crossword this time – that’s what it seemed to me. Solving began with a bang when 1A flew in and way over half the grid was filled on the first pass. … Read more >>
Phi is well known for crosswords with themes … … but I cannot see one here. When I got Karelia and Korngold I thought there might be other twentieth century classical music references … Read more >>
One of those Eye crossies that was over too soon. Only 5 left to go after the first pass and they were, as usual, up the “top end” – some of the first … Read more >>
I’m struggling with this month’s Genius by this setter’s Guardian alter-ego – in fact I’ve got hardly anywhere with that. Thank goodness this puzzle wasn’t quite as tricky as that. It was pretty … Read more >>
A quick solve this time which is just as well as I am a bit under the weather (*) Special mention to the wordplay of 17A for giving me a chuckle, and the surface … Read more >>