Never knowingly undersolved
One of Punk’s typically excellent crosswords: not easy to solve — particularly while the gateway clue was still a mystery to me — but quite straightforward after the event, as it should be.
Definitions underlined, in maroon. Anagram indicators in italics.
Tees is becoming quite the Monday Indy regular. Since Monday is my blogging day, you’ll hear no complaints from this direction. A fine puzzle, with excellent surfaces, clear cluing, and a wide variety … Read more >>
I am only a stand-in today but I am really pleased to have an encounter with Hoskins, my first actually (as a blogger, that is)!
Phi is well known for crosswords with themes … … but I cannot see one here. When I got Karelia and Korngold I thought there might be other twentieth century classical music references … Read more >>
Serpent has provided the last of this latest set of mid-week puzzles, occupying the slot normally occupied by Phi. Phi’s displacement from his Friday home got me thinking that Serpent may have provided … Read more >>
I find Wiglaf one of the more difficult setters in the Independent stable Today’s puzzle was another that fell into the tricky character for me. Wiglaf’s cryptic definitions are quite … Read more >>
You always get a nice transparent offering from Alchemi. Plenty of good clues here, though nothing I could see that was particularly frightening.
Definitions underlined, in maroon. Anagram indicators in italics.
It’s been six months since we last had the pleasure of blogging a Radian puzzle, and it was worth the wait. We were quite well into the puzzle before we tumbled to … Read more >>
Filbert returns on a really rather pleasant Bank Holiday morning with a themed puzzle.
Thank you Nitsy for another enjoyable Sunday morning puzzle.
Nimrod – so an easy puzzle is highly unlikely! Clever clue-ing as always, as to whether some of it is too clever, it is difficult to say. I feel confident I’ve parsed all … Read more >>
A good way to end the week; spend time solving a Phi Indie puzzle There’s a famous man named down the central column. He died 499 years and 2 days … Read more >>
Very nice crossword from Morph today. Lots of good clues, with convincing surfaces.
Definitions underlined, in maroon. Anagram indicators in italics.
It took us a while to complete the puzzle but when we had finished, we wondered why we had had any problems. Apart form a couple of clues which we were not that … Read more >>
Hob has provided this puzzle, aptly published on the first day of this new month. I thoroughly enjoyed this crossword, which has a lot going on it, with the main theme explained below … Read more >>