Never knowingly undersolved
It’s my six-monthly delve into the Guardian Genius with a puzzle from Pangukupu that I know better as Phi in the Independent series., The preamble was fairly succinct and understandable, … Read more >>
A delightful, satisfying puzzle – thank you, Picaroon! The theme was FLOWER BORDER across the middle, and there were flowers spelt out around the edges of the puzzle: IBERI, PINK, SEDUM, ROSE, PEONY. … Read more >>
Fun to solve and parse – I especially enjoyed 1ac, 9ac, 1dn, and 24dn, alongside other favourites including 25ac, 28ac, and 6dn. Thanks to Paul for the puzzle
Picaroon is keeping busy, with his alter egos Rodriguez and Buccaneer having appeared yesterday in the Independent and in the FT Sunday News puzzle. No complaints from me about that, as his puzzles … Read more >>
Sphinx returns six years after his debut.
The puzzle may be found at https://www.theguardian.com/crosswords/cryptic/29185.
Vulcan steps predictably into his fortnightly Monday slot. We have the usual Monday medley of charades, anagrams and double and cryptic definitions. I quite liked 1, 10, 11 and 15ac and 8 and … Read more >>
Carpathian is a regular and reliable Quiptic setter – here she is again.
An alphabetical jigsaw from Paul this week
Paul rounds off the week with a puzzle that I found something of a challenge. I’m feeling decidedly 22ac today. I had a look at the Guardian crossword comments – they don’t do … Read more >>
I liked this a lot, with nice surfaces and some chewy parsing to work through. My favourites were 8ac, 9ac, 14ac, 5dn, and 18dn. Thanks to Fed for the puzzle
I found this quite hard work, though in retrospect there were several clues that I should have got much more quickly than I did – a sign of good clueing, I suppose. A … Read more >>
Jack is today's Guardian complier.
Anto sets for both the Quiptic and the Guardian Cryptic, and I’m yet to be convinced that he makes an effort to offer the editor clearly defined puzzles for each genre. Abbreviations cd … Read more >>
The puzzle may be found at https://www.theguardian.com/crosswords/cryptic/29178.