Never knowingly undersolved
Tees fills the Wednesday slot this week. Last week Tees filled the Thursday slot when I was the blogger. I am very happy to blog another Tees offering. We had … Read more >>
Atrica provides our daily exercise in the vagaries of the English language.
I found this quite tough in places and stalled for a while on the north east corner.
Thank you to Alchemi. Definitions are underlined in the clues. Across 1. Put an end to child holding on to rubbish elephant’s head (8) KIBOSHED : KID(a child) containing(holding on to) [ BOSH(rubbish/nonsense) … Read more >>
The puzzle is available here. Hello everyone. A puzzle from one of my very favourite setters was just what I needed after a long, hard week at work. My impression of this … Read more >>
In time-honoured tradition, Phi has brought this week’s set of mid-week puzzles to an end. I found this to be towards the easier end of the Phi spectrum and made steady progress through … Read more >>
Tees is currently one of the most prolific setters of Independent cryptics. There was a clear theme today, but in relation to a subject I know very little about. However, … Read more >>
Our regular Wednesday challenge from Eccles.
Hoskins sets the Tuesday challenge this week.
A thoroughly enjoyable romp around the latest political shenanigans with Bluth. Not everyone’s cup of tea, but I loved it; and will warn you here that once Bluth had started to put the … Read more >>
Straightforward, but not easy. One of those puzzles where everything seems obvious afterwards. Thank you Tees.
First time in a Saturday slot for Italicus who is more usually, though rarely, seen on a Monday. So I was expecting something a little less tricky than what I found. I can’t … Read more >>
It’s Friday, so not surprisingly, the Independent puzzle is set by Phi I liked the surfaces of the clues for RADICALISM (11 across) because of its relevance to the entry, … Read more >>
Thursday fun from Serpent.
Well, this was fun although our first thought was about the grid – four ‘crosswords’ in each of the corners linked by only a few clues. Not a very solver-friendly grid.