Never knowingly undersolved
Picaroon rounds off a good week of puzzles with an entertaining medley of ingenious constructions, witty definitions and amusing surfaces – a typical Picaroon puzzle, then. I learned new expressions at 12ac and … Read more >>
A fun solve…
A lot of straightforward clues here, making this a very quick solve for me. Thanks to Qaos. It took me rather longer to identify the theme, which is the DISCWORLD novels of Terry … Read more >>
Brendan provides this morning's brain teaser.
A debut Quiptic puzzle from Chandler, and a fine one it was too. I can only find one Chandler puzzle in the archive, and that was a Genius back from 2019. This was … Read more >>
The puzzle may be found at https://www.theguardian.com/crosswords/cryptic/28698.
Although the instructions seemed clear, it took me a while to realise that the “thematic word” to be paired with the undefined answers was not the same every time. I think it was … Read more >>
I think we have a rare beast here – the lesser-spotted ‘vanilla’ puzzle from Paul…
The puzzle may be found at https://www.theguardian.com/crosswords/cryptic/28696.
It’s Paul back today, less than a week after his Saturday Prize puzzle. I must admit to feeling not only exasperated at having to dot all over the grid, chasing Paul’s characteristic linked … Read more >>
A fun solve – I had a lot of favourites: 12ac, 23ac, 25ac, 1dn, 2dn, 5dn, 13dn, and 16dn. Thanks to Tramp for the puzzle
A couple of slightly obscure words in this puzzle, but helpfully clued so they didn’t prevent me getting through it quite quickly. Thanks to Brummie. It helped that I spotted the theme early … Read more >>
Thank you to Matilda. Definitions are underlined in the clues. Across 9. Good place to leave a boat in Alaska? (9) ANCHORAGE : Cryptic defn: Name of a port(a good place to leave … Read more >>
My second Anto blog
It’s four months since Brummie appeared in the Saturday slot and that puzzle also fell to me to blog. It had Special Instructions, with eight clues producing one of a pair of commonly … Read more >>