Never knowingly undersolved
What’s this? Picaroon with Special Instructions? On a weekday? Several times lately Picaroon has taken to hiding his themes until midway through the down clues, thus frustrating solvers like me who tackle the … Read more >>
An enjoyable and tricky solve – I was glad to get several of the long solutions early on. Favourites were 8ac, 9ac, 11ac, 18ac, 1dn, 2dn, and 14dn. Thanks to Jack for the puzzle
Quite a quick solve for me on this one, though I was held up a little at the end in the SW corner (for no obvious reason). Thanks to Philistine for an enjoyable … Read more >>
Apologies to early commenters especially those who helped me with BEAM (KVa and Peter Owen) and POWERS (NeilW) as I have now updated the blog in a better format and I have been unable to transfer over your comments.
Our Quiptic puzzle is from Anto today.
The puzzle may be found at https://www.theguardian.com/crosswords/cryptic/29088.
May’s Genius setter was Pasquale, donnish as ever …
A very challenging themed puzzle from Paul this week.
The puzzle may be found at https://www.theguardian.com/crosswords/cryptic/29086.
It’s Brummie providing our puzzle this morning. I found this pretty straightforward, with a number of simple charades and anagrams and a helpful indication of a ‘lift and separate’ clue at 5dn. … Read more >>
A tricky solve with some tough parsing – my favourites were 5ac, 22ac, 25ac, 5dn, 7dn, and 23dn. Thanks Paul for the puzzle
We usually tend to see Picaroon later in the week, but he’s welcome any time as far as I’m concerned. Thanks to Picaroon for another great puzzle. Across 1 CALVE Shortening parts … Read more >>
Top puzzle, that. Clearly clued and with concise and meaningful surface readings. Brava, Matilda. Abbreviations cd cryptic definition dd double definition cad clue as definition (xxxx)* anagram anagrind = anagram indicator [x] letter(s) … Read more >>
Anto is your setter this bright Monday morning.
A first glance at the clues shows that 11A is going to be the key to this puzzle…as it is cross-referenced in no fewer than fifteen other clues!