Never knowingly undersolved
As usual we have a nice, quite difficult but not overly so, crossword from Scorpion. There is one on which I’m quite lost and a couple of others where I’m probably not seeing it all, but as usual …
There seem to be more than the usual number of characters in films and sport, but without any apparent pattern, so I’ll leave it to the eagle-eyed to see if anything’s happening.
Definitions in italics.
It’s always a pleasure to blog a puzzle by Dac. The most difficult part however, is knowing what to say in the preamble! Perhaps we’ll just leave it at that apart from adding … Read more >>
This Tuesday has brought my latest encounter with Radian, of which there have been many over the last six months or so. I found that I made fairly swift progress through this one, … Read more >>
Nice mostly gentle run out from Kairos today.
I enjoyed this Sunday’s offering from Alchemi. Generally a puzzle in the usual accessible IoS style; but that said, there were a number of clues where I had to head-scratch a bit before … Read more >>
I was very pleased to see I’d drawn a Morph puzzle this time as I always find them entertaining. Seeing 1D mentioned in several clues I naturally tried to crack that first, but … Read more >>
The standard Phi: all very good and one can hardly find fault with any of the clues, some of which are nice.
I’m not quite sure what the theme is: there are many Australian towns dotted around the grid, and also several Scottish ones, and Perth could be either, but is there anything further?
Definitions in italics.
We always anticipate a good challenge on a Thursday, but this was a little easier than we expected, although there quite a few head-scratching moments. 26d was our LOI – having never heard … Read more >>
Dac returns to his spiritual home of the Wednesday slot this week. After the difficulties I had penetrating last week’s wordplay, I was somewhat relieved to find that I could parse most, if … Read more >>
Today is the 1st April and the date is referenced in the clues. My initial thought on reading through the clues in this puzzle was that we would be looking … Read more >>
This was a well-written puzzle with some excellent surface readings (e.g. 14,4). It was mostly quite accessible, although a few (such as 1 and 7) required a little research to understand the parsing. … 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.) Not exactly a pushover for a … Read more >>
My first blog of spring brings a battle with Nimrod. And quite a battle it proved to be with many novel devices in play in this puzzle especially in the construction of the … Read more >>
Firstly, many thanks to Gaufrid for standing in for us while we have been away. It’s Friday so it was no surprise when we saw it was Phi! Thankfully we didn’t find it … Read more >>
It has been a while since I have solved and blogged a puzzle by Donk, so I attacked this morning’s challenge with gusto. There are a fair few short entries in this grid, … Read more >>