Never knowingly undersolved
beermagnet Nimrod. Brilliant. With an interesting grid that I don’t remember seeing much before which helps the solver by providing a goodly number of first letters. This solve went very well kicking off with … Read more >>
There are a couple of questions arising in the chat below that I’d be obliged if someone can answer. Across 1 SPACED AC inside SPED Yet again 1A is the last I fill in … Read more >>
Across 6 EURO-MP [th]E U (socially superior) ROMP (junket) 9 HEADWIND HEAD (sexual practice), WIND (bollocks) 10 UNSHAKEN (SUN)* Anagrind: misplaced, HA (exclamation), KEN (one coming before Boris) 11 LUNACY (AN)* Anagrind: … Read more >>
An enjoyable romp through this until the end when I was struggling over Laura for far too long (if you see what I mean). Across 1 LET GO (L[abourit]E GOT)* 4 CHELSEA (LECH)* … Read more >>
An entertaining puzzle in more than one sense – I enjoyed it – and there are clues using “entertained by” as “container and contents” indicator more than once, but I only point this out … Read more >>
I don’t note solving times but maybe I ought to start as I’m pretty sure I must’ve had a Personal Best for this one. Must’ve been about 15 minutes. There was nothing here … Read more >>
There was a different crossword in the paper to that on-line – see blog for no. 6809 for details. In a comment on that blog Eimi mentions that this is also a Virgilius puzzle, from … Read more >>
… of the one-armed pedant Across 1 KOWTOW K[ens] O[ffice] WOW around T[ime] 1 Across is last to go in again. I think it must be that my brain cell is not warmed … Read more >>
The crossword that dared to cross Beelzebub with Ann Widdecombe … Across 8 CLARA CLAR[e] A That clue felt a bit cheeky. It spells out the wordplay so clearly that it misleads. I … Read more >>
Is Rufus getting harder? I had some trouble with this – particularly in the top left corner. Lots of CDs and DDs (Cryptic Definitions and Double Defs) and not many anagrams (I can … Read more >>
There seemed to me to be a lot of question mark ended clues this time, at least they were the ones I had most trouble with, probably just me then. In truth this … Read more >>
Another crossword where the last answer (correctly) written in is the first clue you look at, i.e. 1A or equivalent. This seems to have been happening to me a lot recently. Is it … Read more >>
Solving time : 3 pints Blogging time: 1 pint (just to make up the half, like) Currently drinking: Marston’s Pedigree Across 1 BUSH BABY Yo Pres! Did Telly Savalas ever meet GWB or … Read more >>
This was most enjoyable. Across 6 NOAH NO-AH “Flood survivor” I had a real blank on this one. I expect it was just me. It ended up being the last in. I left … Read more >>
Erm.. I haven’t got much to say about this one. It was standard Eye/Cyclops stuff with nothing to greatly complain about, but also also not much to praise – merely workmanlike. Oh Gawd … Read more >>