Never knowingly undersolved
A nice surprise this morning – a very welcome return for Brendan, with a puzzle that was not too much of a challenge for a weekday but a very enjoyable solve. Brendan’s puzzles … Read more >>
Several answers, especially the longer ones, were written in very quickly, but this still took a long time with quite a few obscurities. Favourite 4dn – I’m unsure of my parsing of 12ac and 27ac.
I found this very hard to get started on, and not much easier after that, even after getting the crucial 15d, though as is often the case the explanations are mostly quite straightforward. … Read more >>
Moley always produces a good Quiptic for us, because she’s a talented and generous soul. Just one or two in this one that I wasn’t that enamoured with. What did you think? … Read more >>
A very gentle stroll today, even by Rufus standards, with the possible exception of 31ac which may be unknown by some … … and perhaps shouldn’t have been clued with a cryptic def. … Read more >>
I haven’t done one of Shed’s puzzles in a while, and it’s very welcome to do so again – excellent clues throughout, I thought. (I have a couple of queries below, which I’m … Read more >>
At last the Guardian has realised the change to daylight savings time (more or less; I suspect that the solution is still late arriving). The puzzle may be found at https://www.theguardian.com/crosswords/cryptic/26865.
(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.) A challenge, in some places, from Crucible, … Read more >>
My thanks to Gaufrid for standing in for me last week, while I was having a great time walking in North Mallorca. An enjoyable puzzle from Paul, with a perhaps slightly obscure theme … Read more >>
Many favourites, including 10ac, 24ac and 10dn. Thanks, Philistine.
A very enjoyable puzzle from Provis. Some entertaining surface readings and just the right amount of head-scratching for a Monday morning, I thought.
A typical Rufus, with plenty of cryptic and double definitions – 5 of each. For variety there are also 5 pure anagrams and 5 clues of the form “A in B”. Thanks to … Read more >>
A theme of occupations, often very amusingly defined, characterised this puzzle.
It’s been a while since I blogged an Arachne puzzle, but this was worth the wait, with clever clueing and characteristic wit. Thanks to Arachne. Possible Nina alert: I notice that JENNER appears … Read more >>
I would say that this is a fairly typical Paul puzzle with some easy entry clues and others that need a little more thought (or even a lot!). A bit of Paul’s trademark … Read more >>