Never knowingly undersolved
Following the Bank Holiday, a colourful puzzle from Radian is exactly what I needed to get the working week off to a positive start. I found this to be a medium-difficulty puzzle, in … Read more >>
It’s a bank holiday, so perhaps we should expect something a bit more demanding. Any road up, I found this demanding; but that could just be me. Sound puzzle, though. … Read more >>
You tend to know where you stand with Hypnos, and this Sunday’s puzzle was no exception. As such there isn’t a great deal for me to add: nothing stuck out as controversial or … Read more >>
My first occasion to lock horns with Rodriguez, at least on a blogging day. This one all seemed to go in very smoothly. That the theme was clearly signposted at 27 across certainly … Read more >>
The usual utterly sound and enjoyable crossword from Phi. You can tell how good it is because (although on the easy side for Phi) it presents its fair share of problems while solving, but all the constructions turn out to be very straightforward.
A good challenge from Tees today, although there were one or two clues that we struggled with and some new words to check out. We had come across the Gods in 10ac before … Read more >>
Dac’s latest puzzle has been supplied for our entertainment this Wednesday morning. I actually found this towards the harder end of the Dac spectrum, in that I got off to a flying start … Read more >>
A fairly typical Independent puzzle today where you can just solve the clues, but … ELLA FITZGERALD [8 down, 15 down], is a SINGER, [22 down]. Indeed she is referred … Read more >>
Once again I’ve drawn the lad Hoskins, not that I’m complaining, far from it.
Raich always gives us sound puzzles, and this is no exception. I found it tough, though. Could just be brain fade on my part. Happy St George’s Day. Abbreviations … Read more >>
With Klingsor back again on a Saturday things can’t be too bad. Solving was a pleasure. Half the grid was filled on first pass – precisely: 14 out of the 28 clues entered. … Read more >>
It’s Friday and as expected we have a Phi to solve and blog – no complaints here. Phi has apparently decided to set himself challenges other than the inclusion of themes or … Read more >>
Serpent’s latest cruciverbal challenge is occupying the Thursday slot this week. Compared with the last Serpent puzzle that I blogged on a Thursday about a month ago, I found this one a tad … Read more >>
Math is the setter this Wednesday, occupying the slot predominantly filled by Dac. There is a clear film theme to the across entries with some further allusions to films and … Read more >>
As always, a fine crossword from Punk. There are possible quibbles with 13ac and 15ac/1dn, and some of the answers have marginally less than 50% checking, but there is a nice theme that may excuse this.
These crosswords that have lots of clues referring to other ones are always difficult to start on, since one’s first read through only allows possible solving of some of the clues, and this was no exception.
Definitions underlined and in maroon.