Never knowingly undersolved
beermagnet I think I am beginning to recognise Monk’s style. Straight, non-thematic crosswords clued with a range of difficulty. Some relatively accessible clues to start with, but nothing too obvious, so you can make … Read more >>
Back to a slightly tougher crossword this time. At least that’s how I found it, both to get started and to find those last pesky couple of answers. I’ll admit after getting started, … Read more >>
There was no obvious Jubilee theme from Cyclops – I assume he compiled it whilst wearing his union jack bowtie. Solving initially seemed a little slow, but once a few answers delivered some … Read more >>
That Anax, he is a “One” isn’t he …. … and he can take that any way he likes (we had to). Thank God for the long weekend – despite which I … Read more >>
Seemed to me Cyclops was making a particular theme of solitary sexual gratification this week. No? Just me then. I expect he didn’t really mean to milk it. You have to be to … Read more >>
Nimrod has been lurking around the restricted section of the etymological library again and half-inched the special dictionary of obscure words. I had only very few answers after the first pass of the … Read more >>
This crossword was unusual in two respects. It had a large number of clues: This grid design gives 32 lights and only one clue involved two lights, whereas Cyclops often creates longer answers … Read more >>
I had a bit of ‘blogger’s blindness’ on this one. I found it a struggle, harder than most Tyrus puzzles I’ve tackled before – hard to get started and hard to make … Read more >>
How many tabloid editors or execs will end up in “Stalag Leveson”? Expectations are being laid by the number of people that have been arrested by Operations Weeting and Elveden, but preparations are … Read more >>
Mr B not just revealing but revelling in his roots. 1 Across is the theme which is used in the clue surfaces more than the answers, so while it may be possible to solve … Read more >>
Which Odd couple is Cyclops alluding to I wonder: Cameron and Idi Amin? Al Capone and Robin Hood? There’s an odd couple of bits of wordplay that are not pinned down to my … Read more >>
This surely rates as the gentlest start to a year yet, and the weather’s very mild for the time of year too. I had all but 4 answers filled in after the “first … Read more >>
The man from the banks of the Bann gives us a characteristically tricky prize crossword challenge with several clues that had me foxed for quite a while. Several of them up to and … Read more >>
The festive season seems to have started early in the Eye with a couple of pantomimes opening. Solving-wise, I didn’t have any hold-up clues, and only needed one session to finish this. As … Read more >>
After the usual gulp upon seeing Nimrod at the top of the Prize Puzzle when on blogging duty this turned out to be less evil than many of his puzzles – at least … Read more >>