Never knowingly undersolved
Phi is very much at home today, occupying his customary Friday slot. I found this to be a medium-difficulty Phi puzzle, which gave me a good workout but saved me undue head-scratching. I … Read more >>
It’s only been a fortnight since I last blogged the Serpent, so it was a pleasant surprise to get him again.
Problems today with the fifteensquared site, which was down earlier, so I’m afraid this is a little late. However, you probably won’t be affected because you couldn’t get into it either.
As always Dac has given us an utterly pleasant puzzle. No great problems with it I think — even the slightly doubtful one at 3dn, where my suspicion is that Homer, or the two Homers, nodded, was really perfectly obvious. But then quite possibly they didn’t nod at all and I have missed something.
Definitions in maroon, underlined.
This our first blog of a Maize puzzle, and we hope it won’t be our last! We really enjoyed this – some original clueing and ‘interesting’ definitions, with a few relatively easy … Read more >>
Tees in the Monday slot again, with a puzzle I found hard to get into, but which fell once I had a few clues in the top and bottom halves. There’s a wide … Read more >>
The solutions are clear enough but one or two bits in the clues that I can’t explain away. Not the sort of thing you worry about or even notice as a solver, but as a blogger trying to explain each detail these things bother me. Thanks Peter.
A Saturday Nimrod – enough to send a shiver up your spine! As expected there are a couple which we need some help with. We were struggling towards the end and as … Read more >>
Duncan’s away on holiday for a month so I’m standing in back in my old slot for 4 weeks.
This took me a long time because these crosswords with many references to a single clue can be hard to get started on if you can’t see, as I couldn’t immediately, the gateway clue. They effectively rule out many of the clues, to begin with anyway. But eventually I got going and it was a nice crossword.
Hypnos occupies the mid-week slot this week – he’s been setting for the Indy for almost 10 years now, but mainly on Sundays – this is only our 2nd blog of one of … Read more >>
Radian’s latest offering fills the Tuesday slot this week. I found this to be a thoroughly entertaining, medium-difficulty puzzle, which I was able to complete to my satisfaction unaided, needing just to check … Read more >>
The maze making Daedalus returns for our Monday entertainment, but will it fly?
Please accept my apologies for being a little bit behind with this one. A full blog post will replace this once I get back from helping 75+ kids run around a park and get some coffee inside me.
Admin: I don’t know what has prevented Simon from returning. I have added an analysis of the clues but will leave it up to others to comment on them.
Having spent about a week wrestling with a Hob reprint in the ‘i’ a couple of weeks ago, being drawn to blog this one seemed a little daunting. Sure enough, I made a … Read more >>
The usual utterly sound and satisfactory crossword from Phi. As always, while doing it I found some of the clues a bit tricky, yet afterwards the reason for this was not obvious.
Definitions in maroon, underlined.