Never knowingly undersolved
My apologies for the late posting of the blog today, on what turns out to be a Punk-day rather than a Phi-day! I found this to be very much at the difficult end … Read more >>
I don’t blog Hob crosswords very often although I did write a blog on a Berlioz themed crossword in March this year. Looking through previous blogs of Hob puzzles on … Read more >>
Tough today it seemed. The theme took me a long time to see, and even now I’ve only got half of it. These crosswords with so many cross-references are very hard to get started on, because many of the clues are initially barred to you. But eventually I almost coped and it was on the whole enjoyable.
Definitions in maroon, underlined. Anagram indicators in italics.
Phi again – this time on a Tuesday – He’ll no doubt be getting fed up with us blogging his puzzles.
A fairly straightforward Monday morning solve from Hypnos. I don’t think I’ve blogged one of his puzzles before, so this was a good start.
Mostly a pleasant and gentle Sunday puzzle but with the odd tricky word thrown in here and there to stop me getting complacent. Thank you Peter.
Oh joy – Nimrod. Usually comes in two difficulty levels hard and very hard. But not today or my wavelength just met his for a change. I did find this comparatively easy for … Read more >>
Phi provides a challenge with a theme today The main theme of PACIFIC ISLANDs becomes clear once 8 and 9 across have been solved. I knew all of them except … Read more >>
Dalibor is a fairly recent setter for the Indy and he is clearly worth his place there: this crossword, like its predecessors, contains some very good clues with nice misleading surfaces. And, apart from the next comment and a few very minor quibbles, they are all so far as I can see sound and good.
There are four clues which grate on me because they have <50% checking. I don’t know why this is such a bugbear — I always comment on it — since when you’re solving a clue early on you may have only one of the many letters there to help you, so why 2 out of 5 is such a problem I’m not sure: presumably it’s because Ximenes gave it as a “rule” in his famous book. At any rate no Times crossword (for many people the gold standard, whatever their views on Murdoch) ever has <50% checking.
Definitions underlined, in maroon. Anagram indicators in italics.
Just seeing Eccles name at the top of a puzzle brings a smile to our faces – doubly so when we both put on our ‘Eccles’ voice from the Goons.
It has been a long time since it has fallen to me to blog a puzzle by Morph, so I was pleased to see that today’s puzzle had been compiled by him. I … Read more >>
A fairly typical Tees puzzle with a nice mixture of clues and some snippets of general knowledge thrown in.
The puzzle can be found here. Hello all. Today we have an enjoyable puzzle from Silvanus. It’s also a pangram, not that I noticed until just now. Thanks Silvanus! Definitions are underlined … Read more >>
Two Saturday Klingsors in a row for me, after his ton-up Indy 10,170 five weeks ago… …and, as always, a pleasure to solve and blog, although no theme-ette or Nina this time, unless … Read more >>
The usual highly enjoyable crossword from Serpent. There are some very cleverly-concealed definitions; this sometimes results in [see below]
Definitions underlined, in maroon. Anagram indicators in italics.