Never knowingly undersolved
beermagnet It’s Christmas! So it’s the giant 21×21 sized Eye crossword with some special feature. This puzzle has a preamble: Running clockwise around the shaded squares, starting top left, are two sentences from a 2016 … Read more >>
The blogging cycle brings me Serpent again which is no bad thing. Serpent has brought some innovation to the puzzles done so far both in terms of themes and clueing, and the same … Read more >>
Not the trickiest of solves this time, and as usual full of topical references. There were still a few that I struggled over such as WRAITH and PARALYSE so a nice one. Across 6 … Read more >>
Sorry for the late delivery of this blog. Completely forgot it was my turn. I will have to work out how to wire my smoke alarm to the calendar alerts. We may be … Read more >>
A puzzle centred on the phrase “Bloody difficult woman”. Ken Clarke’s observation <link> which was caught on mic during this summer’s Tory leadership non-election. I imagine as soon as the story broke Cyclops delighting in using … Read more >>
The blogging cycle turned and delivered me Tyrus again which was great because I knew I would enjoy it, and also have a chance of completing it without causing too much grief. If … Read more >>
It’s Private Eye. It’s Brummie. You get what you expect. A middlingly difficult puzzle. Half in after the first pass and nothing that didn’t submit after a bunch of crossing letters were in. … Read more >>
Good morning everyone. I hope it’s still morning. Yet again I find myself apologising for a late blog. Woke up this morning to a beautiful day. Sun was shining. Birds were singing. I … Read more >>
Another mid range Eye puzzle in terms of trickiness. Ten answered after the first pass, thus nearly half the grid filled. Bottom right corner holding out till last but even the very last … Read more >>
Apart from the hard nuts (Anax and Nimrod) evidence is accumulating that since the Saturday puzzle stopped being a Prize puzzle the level of difficulty has gone down a bit. Which is fine by me as … Read more >>
First of all apologies from all for the extreme lateness of this blog. I have knocked this blog together at lunchtime after finding that no blog appeared on Monday and that jetdoc was … Read more >>
I know by now I am very familiar with Cyclops’ style etc. but this must’ve been my shortest solve for any Private Eye puzzle, ever. I made a few notes as I was solving too, and … Read more >>
A Cyclops puzzle that I found slightly tougher on the journey through solving but which was somehow completed all of a sudden. I only got about 10 answers in on the first pass, … Read more >>
The boss giving himself a Saturday outing today, with a puzzle that had me slapping answers in at a great rate. 1 down, 9 across went in with hardly any thought. Of course … Read more >>
An enjoyable offering from Cyclops this time. The clue surfaces were at their story-telling best, in the usual Private Eye style. The answers appeared readily and the whole thing was over at one … Read more >>