Never knowingly undersolved
Serpent has unleashed his cruciverbal venom on us this Thursday, although I am more used to seeing his work on Tuesdays. I found this to be a thoroughly entertaining and very challenging puzzle, … Read more >>
Crosophile provides the fare today. This puzzle challenged my spelling in a couple of places. I had RI [religious instruction] for scripture leading to PUTRIFY at 21 down (PUTREFY) … Read more >>
A pleasant crossword from Radian: all semed straightforward enough and there were some nice clues. I have my doubts about one of them, but perhaps that’s just me being fussy.
Definitions in maroon, underlined. Anagram indicators in italics.
A pleasing and appropriately gentle Monday puzzle from Anglio, who made his Indy debut almost exactly three years ago. All good stuff, apart from one clue which I can’t parse to my satisfaction. … Read more >>
Thanks to Kairos for an enjoyable IoS. Definitions are underlined in the clues. Across 1 No drugs sign – one seen in park? (4,3,3,5) KEEP OFF THE GRASS : KEEP OFF(no!/don’t even think … Read more >>
The puzzle can be found here. Hello, and happy Caturday. I found this puzzle by Loglady less chewy than many of the puzzles often served up for us on Saturdays, but not quite … Read more >>
True to form, Phi brings another string of mid-week puzzles to a close. I found this to be at the easier end of the Phi spectrum in terms of difficulty and solved it … Read more >>
Gila provides a typical Thursday puzzle – slightly tricky in places This was a fairly steady solve, but not very quick. There seemed to be quite a lot of wordplays … Read more >>
After a run of Monk’s crosswords always being blogged by me, there has been a long gap since I had the pleasure. This is because (being so difficult?) he seems to confine himself almost completely nowadays to the Saturday Prize Puzzle.
Actually I’m not sure it really was much of a pleasure. It was remarkably difficult and it took me ages to do all but two (one of which is I now see the unconvincing homophone I had rejected), and there were some very difficult clues, with rare words and not always convincing (to me, at any rate) equivalences of words. Some years ago I used to look out for Monk crosswords because they were so good. Perhaps I’ve changed over the years.
Definitions in maroon, underlined. Anagram indicators in italics (not many of these, which partly explains the difficulty).
It’s been nearly two years since we had the pleasure of blogging a Vigo puzzle.
A fairly straightforward Monday puzzle, except . . . NOTE: In the original published version of this puzzle, there appears to be an error in the clue for 20d – more details below. For technical … Read more >>
A super puzzle, thanks Hoskins.
Filbert is one of the more recent to join the merry band of Independent setters, and this is the first time the nutty one has been seen on a Saturday. I have only … Read more >>
This is my first blog of a Phi puzzle in 2019. As ever it is a pleasant task. I can’t see any link between any of the entries, but experience … Read more >>
Not the world’s easiest crossword, but it is Thursday after all. No complaints though: a whole lot of very nice clues, and the only holdups were the result of my own incompetence.
Definitions in maroon, underlined. Anagram indicators in italics.