Never knowingly undersolved
My goodness I found this hard. I started OK with 7 answers in, plus 2 tentative, on the first pass. Then I ground to a stutter and had to leave it for the … Read more >>
Another Phiday! We found this a bit trickier than usual, but none the worse for that. As usual, great clueing and a good mix of clue types. 1ac had us puzzled as we … Read more >>
Tees is occupying the Thursday slot, one which is visited by a wide range of compilers over the course of a year. I enjoyed this one immensely, solving the longer entries at the … Read more >>
What is there to say about a Dac puzzle that hasn’t been said before? I could very easily just link to, or copy and paste from, the preamble I wrote four weeks ago. … Read more >>
Three checked letters in a seven-letter answer is bad enough; two in a five-letter answer is even worse. Unless, some say, Radian has been constrained by a Nina and has been forced to use answers of this type. If he has (and of course I can’t see it) then perhaps this is justified. And anyway it’s only my view (but also that of some eminent others, I might add).
Pity, because much of this crossword is good, and there are some excellent clues. I particularly enjoyed 1dn.
Definitions underlined.
Always a little smile when I see that it’s Raich for my Monday Indy blog. Enjoyed this one, but there were some that I struggled to see and parse. It yielded in the … Read more >>
I found this one a whole lot harder than any other IoS puzzle I have blogged. There are still a couple I can’t completely explain. Good fun, but I am glad I had plenty of time to sole this one! Thanks eXternal.
Saturday and an offering from Klingsor! That should take my mind off my driving test I found this hard work – suspect my mind was on other things. But when I write it … Read more >>
It was no surprise to discover Phi’s latest offering on what is Phi-day after all. For me, this was a medium-difficulty Phi crossword which I worked my way through at a fairly even … Read more >>
We don’t see this setter very often so it is something of a coincidence that I was standing in for someone who was away, as I am today, when his last puzzle appeared. … Read more >>
It seems that Quixote is now doing the Wednesday crossword on the days (the last Wednesdays of the month) that Dac isn’t doing it, and there is no noticeable diminution of quality. Everything here is very clear and efficient and as with Dac I expect few to have much to say.
We found this quite a tricky solve and there are a couple of clues (2d and 29ac) which we hope others will be able to explain for us. As a keen baker, Joyce … Read more >>
With only five entries after my first, very quick, pass through the clues I thought this one might take a lot longer than it actually did. Fortunately two of these entries were 1dn … Read more >>
Another Poins for me this week, making that six in a row. Poor chap must be getting fed up with me. This one was pitched at a fairly standard IoS level, though I … Read more >>
Three N-Nestors in a row, and now two N-Nimrods…’N’ for me, ‘N’ for me, they’ve all got it ‘N’ for me!… Another thematic puzzle, but distinctly different to Indy 8734, which had a … Read more >>