Never knowingly undersolved
Daedalus has featured a few times in the Independent or Independent on Sunday over the past two years but I think this is the first time I have blogged one of his / … Read more >>
What more is there to say about Dac? The surfaces and the accuracy of construction are right up to their usual standards.
Many apologies for the late posting of the blog – we got our dates wrong! A fairly straightforward puzzle (fortunately for us!!) from Hieroglyph today, with a theme around the evergreen Christmas film … Read more >>
eXternal starts off a grey and cold morning…
Anyone hoping for a gentle post-Sunday lunch solve would have been in for a shock! I got everything in the end but it was not easy. Very satisfying though. Thank you Nimrod.
As anticipated, this was an enjoyable challenge from Klingsor today. Some excellent surfaces caused a fair amount of head-scratching over the parsing of several clues – 23a and 26a in particular. We had … Read more >>
A standard puzzle from Phi today. Well I think it is; I can’t see any themes or messages. This was a good example of a national broadsheet puzzle that solvers … Read more >>
An enjoyable crossword from Crosophile today: not too difficult for a Thursday, it seemed to me.
Even if time is short on the approach up to Christmas, we are enjoying having a regular puzzle (or two) to solve each day and were pleased to see that it was Raich today. Several … Read more >>
Alchemi’s latest puzzle awaited solvers this Tuesday morning. If I look back at my previous blogs of Alchemi puzzles, they all talk about struggling to get started and needing to chip away at … Read more >>
I found this a bit of a grind with lots of quite involved clues and a number of off-centre or obscure word usages making the clues seem more difficult than they actually were.
I think this is my first tangle with Peter, at least within a blogging context, though the Fifteensquared search reveals it isn’t a debut. I often find it tricky to get to grips … Read more >>
Perhaps it’s just that the change of format to online-only no longer lends itself favourably to the quiet luxury of tackling a challenging puzzle over a leisurely pot of coffee or perhaps a … Read more >>
Although this was no easier than Phi usually is, indeed rather tricky in places, most of these answers can be explained in one short parsing. So really quite simple despite appearances — to use what is rapidly becoming a cliché if it hasn’t done so already, the mark of a good setter.
Definitions underlined and in maroon.
As far as we can tell, this is only the fourth Indy puzzle by Rodriguez, and it’s the second we’ve blogged. The previous puzzle was themed, so we have looked at this one … Read more >>