Never knowingly undersolved
Enjoyable – and topical? – fare from Morph for this week’s Prize puzzle… At the end of a 9A TUMULT-uous week in British politics, there seemed to be subliminal references all over this. … Read more >>
Today saw my monthly Friday encounter with Phi. I found this to be a medium-difficulty Phi puzzle. I made steady progress through it from the start almost to the finish, faltering only in … Read more >>
Tyrus has given us a good challenge today with only one entry that I don’t remember coming across before. The one word that was new to me was ALAMEDA at … Read more >>
I am usually trying to write a clue in some clue-writing competition or other; and it is nearly always tortuous. In Dac’s case none of his clues are tortuous: they all seem to be perfectly natural, and they always have a simple and strong surface. Why it should be that the words Dac clues are so different from those that I try to clue is beyond me. Actually they’re not: it’s just that he is rather better at it than I am.
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As soon as we saw that it was Scorpion today, we thought there might be a hidden theme. When we started looking at the clues, it was clear that there was a … Read more >>
There’s a consistency to Poins’ puzzles that makes this setter seem very much at home in the IoS, but which does make it very difficult to find a great deal new to say … Read more >>
It’s a Donk – at long last! Checking through our posts, it’s over a year since we had the pleasure of blogging a Donk. When we were away in February we missed Donk’s puzzle … Read more >>
If you are still awake after staying up all night to watch the Election results, Phi has given us a good sound Friday crossword. I can’t see any obvious theme. … Read more >>
It wasn’t difficult to guess what we would be meeting today.
Another excellent puzzle from Dac. What more can we say that hasn’t already been said? The puzzle features two brilliantly portrayed fictional characters from a few years ago – the memories came … Read more >>
Radian is occupying this week’s Tuesday slot, and it is a while since I last solved and blogged one of his puzzles. I generally find that, for me at least, Radian’s puzzles are … Read more >>
*=anagram [] = removed e.g. char[m]=char ()=abbreviation e.g. A(mpere)=a Hom. = homophone A well constructed and on the whole precisely clued puzzle, 4 being the only one you might slightly question because of … Read more >>
Top puzzle, this one, imho. There’s one I can’t parse, though. Kairos has got the knack of what most folk expect from the IoS crossword. Nothing too obscure; good variety of … Read more >>
As I’m sure I’ve mentioned before, Nimrod is something of a long-term nemesis of mine, having regularly made my life difficult back when I was blogging the Independent dailies. These days I do … Read more >>