Never knowingly undersolved
bridgesong A grid with an unusual feature for this month’s competition puzzle. The unusual feature is to be seen at 5 and 27 down, where we have five letter words with full checking. Another … Read more >>
A rare appearance by Nutmeg in the “prize” slot this week. This is Nutmeg’s first appearance in the prize slot for over a year; I don’t remember blogging one of her puzzles before, … Read more >>
A puzzle by Enigmatist is always a challenge, but this wasn’t as hard as some recent Geniuses. The instructions read as follows: “Thirteen clues consist of wordplay alone and share the same missing … Read more >>
A plain puzzle with what almost amounts to a mini-theme. Unusually for Azed, not only is there one solution (16 ac) referred to in another clue (34 ac) but also another solution (14 … Read more >>
Two solutions ending in “loo”, yet no toilet references in their clues! In his invitation to his Zoom session (I didn’t participate) which coincided with the publication of this puzzle, Paul raised the … Read more >>
A themed puzzle from Philistine for this week’s puzzle in the prize slot. I had the pleasure of blogging Philistine’s puzzles four times last year, but this is the first time this year … Read more >>
A relatively straightforward plain puzzle this week. It actually took me less time to solve this puzzle than it did to solve the previous day’s prize puzzle in The Guardian (by Enigmatist), but … Read more >>
Another brilliant piece of grid-filling by Brendan. Brendan doesn’t make many appearances in the Saturday slot, but there’s always something to appreciate in one of his puzzles. The clues themselves were mostly pretty … Read more >>
The last (plain) puzzle before the milestone, which should be published today if all goes well.
Unusually, Paul has given us a themed puzzle for this week’s Saturday crossword. (“Prize” in the title should be read metaphorically). I can’t remember the last time that Paul gave us a themed … Read more >>
A fiendishly clever puzzle by Paul – but no prizes! I think that this was the first Saturday puzzle for which no prizes are to be awarded, presumably because the office is in … Read more >>
A plain puzzle with a slight Australian flavour this week.
A classic prize puzzle from Paul with some lovely surfaces. I have commented before on how inventive Paul is. Here he comes up with a fresh way of clueing PINAFORE and finds a … Read more >>
Rather more compound anagrams than usual in this week’s plain Azed.
Something of a political theme for this week’s prize puzzle. My solving partner Timon correctly predicted that we were due for a Paul, and so it proved. There are some very clever clues … Read more >>