Bertandjoyce

We enjoyed this offering from Crosophile today. As we said on Thursday, for a crossword to be enjoyable it has to raise some smiles, have some smooth surfaces and is even better when … Read more >>

The last Klingsor puzzle that we blogged was back in March last year.   Once again, we enjoyed the solve. It was tricky in places but one of the criteria for enjoying a … Read more >>

Will there,  won’t there be a theme to Phi’s offering this week? Actually yes, four of Will’s characters from Shakespeare’s play (in the nina across the bottom row) appear in the grid (in … Read more >>

We’re not giving anything away in the preamble when we state that there was an Olympian theme to the puzzle today.   We may be missing something but the chosen Olympians seem to … Read more >>

Anglio takes over Dac’s mid-week slot this week, and it fell to us to blog his puzzle last month as well. As with last month’s puzzle there were some excellent surfaces and clever … Read more >>

This is the first Lohengrin puzzle we have blogged, and it really had the old grey matter whirring! At one point we were so stumped we thought we’d have to give up on … Read more >>

Well…… this was a bit of a ‘tour de force’ by Hob. It wasn’t until Joyce came to write up the blog that Bert suddenly worked out the parsing for 24d and 19d. … Read more >>

Unfortunately, we didn’t really enjoy this offering from Phi today. When this happens, regardless of the setter, we both try and analyse why – perhaps today it was the fact that some of … Read more >>

Scorpion seems to have entered a time warp with this puzzle. There have been a few comments recently about reverse solving which thankfully we are more than happy with. There were some solutions here … Read more >>

Once again, it’s Joyce on her own. This time Bert is on a photographic course near Northallerton. Last week he was part of a small group attempting the Three Peak Challenge in Yorkshire. … Read more >>

The last Monk puzzle we blogged was back in April. Once we’d sorted out 17d (our LOI) we ended up smiling – always a good way to finish a solve.   The grid screamed … Read more >>

Well, a Phi puzzle with a theme that we don’t have to search for this week!   The fact that it involves particle physics meant that several of the eight thematic entries were … Read more >>

Our last Nimrod blog was back in April. We needed help with one of the parsings then and surprise, surprise we need help again today. There were some long answers which on first … Read more >>

Well – a nostalgic theme from Kairos today. This brought back memories of ‘Children’s Favourites’ from the 1950s – a ‘cumulative’ song recorded by Burl Ives which regularly featured on the programme. Click … Read more >>

We look forward to a classic solve when we’re tackling a Wednesday Dac, but unfortunately we found this one a little disappointing. However, we can’t quite put a finger on why we feel … Read more >>