Never knowingly undersolved
Being a natural pessimist, I had visions that my first blog would end up being for a puzzle by Dimitry, Kea or Oxymoron (Schadenfreude’s EV pseudonym), so seeing it was by Syd Lexis … Read more >>
Solving Lest We Forget in the Independent’s Inquisitor series I mistakenly guessed that it might be about the Armistice, I was fooled. On this occasion, Remembrance Sunday, it seemed that there might be … Read more >>
I thought this was the hardest EV for quite a while. It took me over twice as long as usual to complete and I needed my full arsenal of ‘aids’. The extra letters … Read more >>
My initial reading of the preamble left me confused. Were the two word unclued entries spread over two lights each or just one? The other two entries clued by extra words, were they … Read more >>
We are told that eight seven-letter terms radiate outwards from the central square which contains the initial of one whose outlook was 34 and whose name is spelled out in the shaded squares. … Read more >>
Well, here it is, the first EV blog to appear on Fifteensquared! We were told in the preamble that half the clues lacked a common definition and that the answers had to be … Read more >>
From this week, we shall be blogging the Enigmatic Variations puzzle which appears in the Telegraph. Blogs for puzzles 832 and 833 will appear over the next few days, with 834 appearing the … Read more >>