Never knowingly undersolved
It’s Philistine, with a rather chewier offering than usual for a Monday but really rewarding to work out. Philistine is up to all his tricks, with a medley of anagrams and an abundance … Read more >>
A Quiptic from Picaroon which I enjoyed solving and blogging. A couple of clues that took a bit of pencil-chewing; but it’s all clearly signposted if you read the instructions carefully. Abbreviations cd … Read more >>
This special puzzle was included in the Guardian’s magazine today.
This is the thirty-eighth Guardian Quick Cryptic, a series of 11 x 11 crosswords designed to support beginners learning cryptic crosswords. The whole point of these crosswords is support and encouragement of new solvers, so special rules for these crosswords apply – see here – those rules include not posting solving times. This puzzle can be found here.
Picaroon provides the Guardian Prize challenge this week. There was a good mix of general knowledge built into the clues which dipped into literature, film, opera, philosophy, geography and cookery … Read more >>
Hurrah! After almost four months, I get a Picaroon puzzle to blog. I’m interested to hear how this one went down, after the mixed reaction to yesterday’s puzzle from Paul, where we were … Read more >>
A slow and tough solve…
I found this quite slow going: in retrospect most of the clueing is reasonably straightforward, though with quite a few double definitions. Thanks to Imogen. Across 1 STIGMATISATION Getting denounced, recollecting satanism? … Read more >>
Brummie is the compiler of this morning's puzzle.
The puzzle may be found at https://www.theguardian.com/crosswords/cryptic/29567.
Carpathian returns to setting the Quiptic after a long pause setting the Quick Cryptic with a puzzle that does what it says on the tin. The puzzle can be found here
This is the thirty-seventh Guardian Quick Cryptic, a series of 11 x 11 crosswords designed to support beginners learning cryptic crosswords. The whole point of these crosswords is support and encouragement of new solvers, so special rules for these crosswords apply – see here – those rules include not posting solving times. This puzzle can be found here.
A welcome return to the Prize slot for Brockwell.
The puzzle may be found at https://www.theguardian.com/crosswords/cryptic/29565.
Again, there are no comments on the puzzle on the Guardian site today and so I have no idea how this Pasquale puzzle went down over there but I found it an absorbing … Read more >>