Never knowingly undersolved
beermagnet Happy New Year. A relative gentle start to 2022 for Eye solvers compared to that Christmas monster for which great thanks to mc_rapper67 for the stupendous blog. Top half and many others solved … Read more >>
I do not have the time to do all the puzzles I would like to do. We have such an overwhelming choice of new puzzles each day, plus hundreds, thousands, from earlier days … Read more >>
I just had a surprise – the Christmas issue of Private Eye dropped through the letterbox today, Friday. I hadn’t noticed last issue covered only for 1 week (and a bit) not the … Read more >>
This puzzle kept me pretty busy. The solve was quite hard. I was happy to get 1A immediately, and about half the answers in place over about half hour. But the rest took … Read more >>
This puzzle was a bit of a stinker, in both senses. There is a lot of untreated effluent floating around these days released by the piss-poor privatised water companies that have dished out … Read more >>
Cyclops keeps us entertained with another round of clues with imaginative surface readings. [ All of which are funnier than this blog’s final “joke” – sorry. ] Solving did not start well. First … Read more >>
A genuinely accessible puzzle from Klingsor. Unusual for a Saturday. Compared to many other puzzles by this setter this one was on the easy side but still had a good selection of solid … Read more >>
Another Cyclops puzzle in the style we love. After whipping through the top left lights, I thought I was on for a very fast solve, or even a clean sweep. But at first … Read more >>
Highly enjoyable puzzle from Wiglaf today. I sailed into this clobbering more than half the puzzle in less than a half-hour, thoroughly enjoying some relative accessible clues. For some of these it feels … Read more >>
Some particularly fine surface readings throughout this puzzle. I noticed because I couldn’t find the notes I made when first solving it, so have effectively re-solved it while doing the blog. Of course … Read more >>
Some bloggers see the name Filbert and immediately leap to nut-based puns: “It was/wasn’t a tough nut to crack” / “Today’s nutty setter …” etc. Unfortunately I am unable to stoop to this … Read more >>
Another round with our one-eyed friend. This one didn’t put up much of a fight. For a change I solved it in the mag itself, with a pencil, and thoroughly enjoyed it and … Read more >>
Our Prog Rock loving setter has gone a bit harder with this puzzle … … music-wise that is, with an appearance by Led Zeppelin and their astonishingly accurate young look-alikes hard rock band … Read more >>
Yet again the very first clue attempted is the last to be solved. There seems to be a feature in our brains (well, mine anyway) which we must overcome to be better solvers. … Read more >>
Our one-eyed friend provides the fun at the back of the mag as usual. Some relatively easy clues this time I felt, particularly those with long definitions, but not to the extent of … Read more >>