Never knowingly undersolved
I made a slow start on this, but after a while had filled the bottom half. The top half took rather longer… For my taste there are rather too many inaccurate or ungrammatical … Read more >>
The mid-solving-period was a slog for me, as is always the case with Boatman’s puzzles and I. Somehow I can’t get on to his wavelength. All the same, I finished it eventually, and … Read more >>
The puzzle may be found at https://www.theguardian.com/crosswords/cryptic/27097.
I’m always glad to see Crucible’s name on a puzzle, especially when I’m blogging, and this one was no disappointment. I can’t see any anniversary or event to occasion a puzzle on the … Read more >>
Pan usually sets us an accessible Quiptic, but I have to say that I struggled with this today. Nothing unfair, but if beginners were expecting a gentle one, this probably wasn’t it. … Read more >>
A nice start to the week with Rufus’s trademark smooth surfaces. Favourites were 1dn and 17dn – thanks, Rufus.
No themes or clever tricks, just a good old-fashioned puzzle. Thanks Brummie.
Got stuck a few times but it was well worth the struggle. Favourites were 1ac, 23ac, 2dn and 4dn. Thanks, Paul
It’s only just over two weeks since I last blogged a Vlad puzzle, and as usual I approached it with some trepidation. However, it turned out to be rather a gentle one by … Read more >>
A tough test this morning from Imogen
The puzzle may e found at https://www.theguardian.com/crosswords/cryptic/27090. It comes with:
Special instructions: An anniversary tribute
To be fair, there were many standard Quiptic-like clues, but the cryptic-definition clues were, I thought, a bit over-, well, cryptic for a Quiptic. Notwithstanding all that, thanks to Anto. Definitions are underlined … Read more >>
It’s a different name on the Monday puzzle but Rufus-lovers will not be disappointed, I think: we have a familiar straightforward medley of charades, anagrams and double definitions to ease us into the … Read more >>
‘Special instructions’ always cause me a bit of a flutter, especially if I’m blogging. Here, they were ‘Twelve solutions contain related objects, not further defined in their clues’. This seemed quite straightforward – … Read more >>
A fairly typical offering from Pasquale today, perhaps a little less challenging than he can be but with the obligatory one or two less familiar words, meticulously clued. I don’t always find a … Read more >>