Never knowingly undersolved
Borders are a bit of a hot topic at the moment – with the EU struggling with the refugee crisis, Donald Trump threatening to build a wall to ‘keep the Mexicans out’, and … Read more >>
I’ve never known an EV to be slapdash, and I doubt this one will be!
A novel variation on the “hidden” message them this week. Words are to be anagrammed within the clues to make the clue solvable with their first letters leading to a “modified” quotation. Took … Read more >>
So who’s Elroy? Well it’s a character in The Jetsons cartoon series however it’s also an anagram of Leroy, Royle or Oyler. As this puzzle was a joint effort by the editor, Samuel, … Read more >>
It looked like it would be an easy week for me here. It was a small 10×6 grid, and there were only twenty clues, with no misprints or extra letters, and what seemed … Read more >>
What kind of ‘qualities’ of which type of ‘stars’ is Kcit presenting for our enjoyment here? Celestial bodies, sporting stars, movie stars – or the kind of sub-lebrity flotsam that washes up on the … Read more >>
This EV seems to have a lot going on. There’s a work of some kind spelled out by extra letters, which are indicated by extra words in eighteen clues. The work ‘suggests’ a number of grid entries that have two components – one of which is ‘derived’ from the answer, the other of which ‘is to be deduced’. There’s also an unclued entry.
A whodunnit this week – based on Cluedo. Five innocent suspects to be eliminated and 5 weapons too – all hidden in the clues. The murder room is then the room defined by … Read more >>
The old move letters into the perimeter trick this week. Letters latent with the latent letters moving. Definition and wordplay were to the full answer; we just had to work out which letter … Read more >>
I don’t know if I am speaking for the other EV bloggers, but to me every fourth EV puzzle is a bit of an UNKNOWN COMMITMENT… What have I let myself in for this … Read more >>
This EV uses alphabetically listed clued that have to be slotted in to the grid. That normally means quite a bit of cold solving. The danger is that one can feel one isn’t getting anywhere. That said, I do have a soft spot for Samuel’s EVs, so I have confidence that this will be enjoyable.
Well what a preamble. Nine words and a letter from the clues need returning to the preamble for it to make sense. Also letters need to be moved in an indeterminate number of … Read more >>
This is Serpent’s first EV, although I remember his IQ a few months back that was quite tricky. Here we had 12 acrosses that need modification before entry — six each of two … Read more >>
After struggling through a few blank-ish jigsaw EVs recently, I was hoping for a REST…and so it seemed to be…until I realised that Mynot had given me FOUR mini-jigsaws!… Sets of four clues … Read more >>
Quite an ominous title this week!
There are extra letters in across clues that indicate how additional words in some down clues must be treated. That’s about all the clue we have to the theme.