Never knowingly undersolved
Phi’s latest teaser brings this week’s set of mid-week puzzles to an end in time-honoured fashion. I found this puzzle to be quite a challenge and, although I solved quite a few clues … Read more >>
Wiglaf is a setter I have struggled with in the past, so let’s see how we get on this time. I found this difficult. Indeed, some of the clues would … Read more >>
What a difficult puzzle this was. There were lots of clues that I just couldn’t do for a long time, but I hoped to be able to complete the blog to my satisfaction; which I thought was on, but as you will see below just failed.
The less than 50% checking in several of the answers irritated me and justified me in my failure to make faster progress; quite wrong of course. The actual clues were very good and I have no excuse.
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Once again, we have to apologise to Serpent for another Bertandjoyce blog. We are certainly not complaining – hopefully Serpent won’t either. Our LOI was CARGO CULT which we had not … Read more >>
Congratulations to Kairos. That’s an L of an achievement. A pleasing and well-constructed puzzle for the Monday slot, and one which sees us celebrating Kairos’ fiftieth puzzle (for the Indy, … Read more >>
I enjoyed this. A “straightforward” puzzle in the best sense: traditional but not dull. Thanks Peter.
Drawing a Tyrus on blogging day can be a little daunting, though in this case I seemed to make steady progress from the start. Spotting the nina helped somewhat, of which more later. … Read more >>
Friday is the beginning of my four week blogging cycle and not surprisingly it’s a Phi puzzle that gets me underway. We have a well signposted theme this week with … Read more >>
There was a time when Tees always presented a stiff challenge, with various bits of arcane knowledge required. In recent crosswords I have found him much easier. That this is the result of improvement by me I somewhat doubt; it is more likely that Tees has decided to become a bit kinder.
But there has been no diminution of quality. Easy enough his crosswords may be nowadays, but they are still excellent: still tightly-produced clues and the occasional classical reference.
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By some freak circumstance, we’ve had the pleasure of blogging Eccles’ last three puzzles. This one was up there with the others – all good fun – we particularly liked 26ac. Hoskins’ puzzle … Read more >>
Radian has provided today’s cruciverbal entertainment, and indeed it is not unusual for his puzzles to appear on a Tuesday. I found this to be a medium-difficulty puzzle that revealed itself to me … Read more >>
The nutty Filbert seems to have hit rock bottom today.
Classic Sunday Hoskins stuff with plenty to enjoy, as always. Perhaps a little tougher than usual, or was it just me? I certainly had to work for a few, perhaps due to some … Read more >>
Very happy to see a Quaiteaux on a Saturday slot and for me to get to blog it. Though there are only a few puzzles by this setter, I remember them. Typically they … Read more >>
This was probably on the slightly easier end of the Phi spectrum of difficulty, not that it fell all that comfortably. Apart from one or two slight doubts, indicated below, I found this as usual to be pleasant and accessible.
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