Never knowingly undersolved
It is always a pleasure to find Dac occupying his spiritual home in the Indy Wednesday slot, and indeed many weeks have gone by since it last fell to me to blog one … Read more >>
Wiglaf on Tuesday this week. It’s nearly fifteen months since I last blogged a Wiglaf puzzle and I note I said then that was the first Wiglaf I had blogged, … Read more >>
No hallucinatory drugs were used in the construction of this blog, but this setter’s past form may have led me to imagine one or two things that aren’t really there. … Read more >>
A gentle Sunday solve from Alchemi, with a couple of inventive clues that I particularly liked. The only hold ups were caused by my own muppetry. When you’re trying to solve a clue … Read more >>
Looks like the Indy and our fifteensquared rota are aligned and brings a Tees to blog again – suits me. I remember some years ago I found Tees’ puzzles very hard. I know … Read more >>
Another end to the week and another Phi to solve. However, we still have some of this week’s Indy puzzles yet to solve as the Inquisitor crossword in the i newspaper last Saturday … Read more >>
Filbert has provided today’s cruciverbal teaser for our (pain and!) pleasure. This was my first attempt at solving and blogging an Indy puzzle by Filbert and I found it a real challenge, towards … Read more >>
As far as I can ascertain from research on fifteensquared, Points is more regularly seen at weekends than during the week. I can’t remember blogging a Poins puzzle before. Maybe … Read more >>
My heart sank a bit when I saw that I was blogging a Serpent: he’s dreadfully hard, isn’t he? Well no, not actually: there were some easy ones so that the start was OK; then I got rather stuck and was slow to complete. But the clues (apart from 28ac possibly: no doubt I shall be corrected — yes I was, by baerchen, many thanks, I thought that would happen) were sound and good. Nice crossword.
Definitions underlined, in maroon. Anagram indicators in italics.
I heard a short while ago that the scheduled blogger’s internet connection is down so here is a quick analysis of the clues. In the interests of getting this posted without further delay … Read more >>
A relaxing Sunday puzzle. Thanks to Silvanus. Definitions are underlined in the clues. Across 1 Sweet smell attracts insect (6) HUMBUG : HUM(to smell unpleasant) plus(attracts) BUG(an insect, in general). Defn: A boiled … Read more >>
Lots of black space in the grid – Maybe something is hiding? Well something was, but not in the obvious place of the perimeter. Kate Bush pointed me towards Wuthering Heights – Emily … Read more >>
Phi has provided today’s cruciverbal challenge from his usual Friday home. I found this to be the toughest Phi crossword that I have solved in many a month. I think that I have … Read more >>
It’s a while since I blogged a Klingsor puzzle I think, so it was good to get one today. Klingsor doesn’t do messages or Ninas very often but he does … Read more >>
Hoskins seems to appear practically every week nowadays and he has certainly had his fill of me, since we frequently coincide. But I haven’t had my fill of him, since he always produces good crosswords where everything is properly explained; as ever, this crossword contains some very good clues.
Definitions underlined and in maroon. Anagram indicators in italics.