Never knowingly undersolved
This was an enjoyable puzzle from Orlando, with some fine misdirections. Thanks to Orlando. Definitions are underlined in the clues. [[The pictures at the bottom have unidentified links to the puzzle. Please enclose … Read more >>
Another delightful puzzle from Brendan this morning, with a panoply of inventive constructions and witty, story-telling surfaces, with lots of smiles and ahas along the way, revealing an ingenious theme. It’s too difficult … Read more >>
Malaysia is engulfed in a smoky haze of such intensity that schools have been closed and a state of emergency declared in certain areas adjacent to Indonesia whose open burning of forest to … Read more >>
My third Nutmeg puzzle in a row! I must be getting used to her style as I found this one to be fairly easy. Most of the definitions given are from Chambers 12th … Read more >>
Slightly more variation in clue styles here than the last one I blogged, but still generous helpings of double and cryptic definitions. Not really to my taste, but I’m sure Rufus fans will … Read more >>
A witty and entertaining puzzle from Puck, one of my favourite setters whose puzzles we don’t see so often. There’s a theme here of the Puck Fair (“Ireland’s oldest fair”) which is having … Read more >>
The puzzle may be found at http://www.guardian.co.uk/crosswords/cryptic/25980.
It’s always a delight to see Tramp’s name on a puzzle that I’m down to blog – but, as time has gone on, and as he has increasingly demonstrated his prowess in writing … Read more >>
A clever and tricky puzzle from Bonxie, though with a some rather obscure words that some might find a bit much for a daily puzzle, and a couple of cryptic definitions that aren’t … Read more >>
This is a mixed bag of goodies; some delightfully outrageous and some not so. Across 1 Fit to grasp point of gap (7)INTERIM Ins of E (east, point on compass) in IN TRIM … Read more >>
The puzzle may be found at http://www.guardian.co.uk/crosswords/quiptic/709. I found this plain sailing, as befits a Quiptic. Across 1. Peer said to be infertile (6) BARREN A homophone of BARON (‘peer’). As often, the … Read more >>
Got through most of this quickly, but came unstuck for a long while on the last two – 21ac then 7dn. Favourite clues were 2dn and 8ac. Across 1 PAPER CLIP cryptic def … Read more >>
I found this to be a distinctly challenging puzzle, although I didn’t help myself by a stupid error which delayed my solving of 26 across, the key to the theme. There seemed to … Read more >>
What a treat to end the week! – Araucaria in great form, in a puzzle with one of his own favourite themes. It was something of a puzzle of two halves for me. … Read more >>
Once again I am typing this on a small laptop in a hotel room on a slow connection, so please excuse some rather abbreviated explanations and probably some typos. I think “slow but … Read more >>