Never knowingly undersolved
I started at the end with 25dn and worked backwards through the clues, making steady progress and with the empty lights only just reaching double figures by the time I got to 1ac. … Read more >>
Monk’s customarily efficient and elegant crossword today. I get the impression that he is appearing in the Indy more often than he has, which is good news.
One or two are beyond me a bit, but no doubt someone will come to the rescue.
This seems to contain a personal message: read down the unches on the left, then the horizontal unches in the middle, then the unches on the right.
Definitions underlined.
Another smooth offering from Dac – one or two entries we needed to check, but all very clear from the excellent cluing. We hadn’t come across 4ac before and had to use electronic … Read more >>
I have not solved or blogged many puzzles by Hieroglyph, so I approached this one with a mixture of curiosity and apprehension. A quick perusal of the across clues revealed a theme (revolving … Read more >>
I found this an enjoyable puzzle which required a bit of work to tease out some of the parsings. The def in 17 is the only one I’m not sure about. 20 I … Read more >>
We’ve had some very good puzzles in the IoS slot recently, I think, and this was another one. All pretty gettable (which is the brief for the Independent on Sunday) but with some … Read more >>
We enjoyed this Prize Puzzle from Tees. It took us a while to get started but once we had a few crossing letters things fell into place reasonably quickly. Joyce really likes short … Read more >>
The usual pleasant crossword from Phi, as always I find a bit slow to begin with but eventually all quite smooth. There seem to be lots of anagrams and part-anagrams here, which make it easier for the solver, and some of them are very obviously anagrams (as in 26ac).
The two words 3dn and 14dn are a sort of mini-Nina, having a similarity of shape to the things they signify, but no doubt there is more …
Definitions underlined.
We always look forward to a Morph puzzle, and still cannot forget his brilliant Limerick based puzzle back in May
Today sees my monthly blogging encounter with Dac and his highly sound clues with their silky-smooth surfaces.
What an excellent puzzle! Some may disagree with this statement but I enjoyed every minute of it.
This setter has produced some cracking puzzles recently, and they seem to crop up on my watch, which is no hardship at all. Another well-crafted, accessible crossword in the Monday slot, which until … Read more >>
(Please click here for this same blog but with a picture quiz added. Please do NOT post hereinbelow any comment relating to the picture quiz. Thank you.) An enjoyable puzzle from Hypnos, to … Read more >>
Aha. A rarish Saturday outing for Phi, no doubt due to being ousted from the Friday slot by Morph’s halloween puzzle. In terms of difficulty, this one didn’t seem out of place for … Read more >>
It’s back to normal this Phiday, and another excellent puzzle with a good mix of fairly straightforward clues and some which caused a bit of head-scratching. Knowing Phi’s propensity for themes or ninas, … Read more >>