Never knowingly undersolved
A very quick furtle in the 225 archive suggests that this is a new setter for the Quiptic, in which case welcome to Alia and congratulations to him or her on producing a … Read more >>
The special instructions are slightly mysterious, though with enough information to get us started:
This week’s 11 x 11 crossword from the Guardian, intended to teach cryptic crosswords, found here
Apart from a few more challenging words, I found this less daunting than most Enigmatist offerings, but with plenty of the characteristic inventiveness nonetheless.
A tricky solve with some tough parsing – my favourites were 29ac, 14dn, and 17dn. Thanks to Kite for the puzzle.
Thanks to Tramp for a fun puzzle with some typically inventive clues, including a couple of nice anagrams.
I was short of time for the blog this morning, so please excuse any (inevitable) errors and omissions.
Paul gets the grey cells working this morning.
The puzzle may be found at https://www.theguardian.com/crosswords/cryptic/29783.
Vulcan provides the Bank Holiday entertainment.
The Guardian’s current Sunday cryptic crossword found here
This week’s 11 x 11 crossword from the Guardian, intended to teach cryptic crosswords, found here
Paul returns to the Prize slot with some characteristically chewy clues.
It’s Paul rounding off the weekday puzzles.
A fun solve – my favourites were 9ac, 27ac, 16dn, and 23dn…
I found this quite hard to get into, and some clues took me a while to parse even when I had the answer. Unsurprisingly there are a few American references that may be unfamiliar. Thanks to Yank for the puzzle,