Never knowingly undersolved
It’s Paul filling the Prize slot this week, with something of a mixture of clue styles. We had old favourites at 4dn and 19dn, for instance, but it turned out that the former … Read more >>
Paul rounds off the week with a generally straightforward puzzle, with just a few bits of parsing that took more thinking about. I had ticks for 1ac SPEEDWAY, 11ac ARTLESSLY, 29ac MOONSETS, 7dn … Read more >>
The puzzle may be found at https://www.theguardian.com/crosswords/cryptic/29145.
Thanks Brendan – I really enjoyed this…
I made a bit of a slow start on this, but once a few answers were in the rest mostly fell satisfyingly into place. Thanks to Brummie. I noticed while solving that a … Read more >>
A pleasing Quiptic as always from Hectence, with some delightful surface readings. A few straightforward anagrams to start the grid fill, then mainly a diet of cleverly constructed charades for the solver to … Read more >>
A rare collaboration in today's Guardian
A musical theme for this month’s Genius.
I found this a tough solve – Tramp is great at finding synonyms that I wouldn’t think of! – but a satisfying puzzle to work at. Thanks, Tramp! (There are a couple of … Read more >>
Thank you to Jack. Definitions are underlined in the clues. Across 1. Obey guards united by lives changed by force (12) COMPULSIVELY : COMPLY(to obey/to act in accordance with a wish or command) … Read more >>
The puzzle may be found at https://www.theguardian.com/crosswords/cryptic/29139.
I have not been one of the greatest fans of Anto’s puzzles but I enjoyed this one today, despite a few quibbles, noted within the blog. There were some good anagrams at 14ac … Read more >>
A slow and tricky solve for me. I really liked 17ac, 23ac, 2dn, 9dn, and 16dn. Thanks to Pasquale for the puzzle
Chandler provides our Quiptic challenge today.