Never knowingly undersolved
My four week blogging cycle begins as ever with a Phi puzzle. A hidden entry reversed across four separate words stood out for me in the blog today – OBSIDIAN at … Read more >>
Some very good clues here. I wasn’t sitting in my usual place in peace and quiet when trying to solve this, and made poor progress with it. Only when I came home did it fall, and even then I had to ‘cheat’ once or twice. So it’s difficult, or perhaps it’s just me.
Definitions underlined, in maroon. Anagram indicators in italics.
The last time we had the pleasure of blogging a Dac puzzle was last July so we were very pleased to see his name above the puzzle this week. As expected, an … Read more >>
The Indy regular Tees has provided today’s puzzle for our delectation. I found this to be a medium-difficulty puzzle where I was able to complete the grid unaided but needed to dig around … Read more >>
A crossword that I liked very much, full of silky smooth clues.
Good stuff from Hypnos once again. Largely raced through this one, though the grid didn’t help a great deal, being one of those that’s quite thoroughly divided into four discrete areas. There were … Read more >>
This was a good Saturday challenge from the slithery one. We found most of the clues rather easier than we would have expected from Serpent, but there were a few that had … Read more >>
Excellent crossword as usual from Phi. Some of the clues were very good, and sometimes one didn’t for a long time know where to go.
Definitions underlined in maroon. Anagram indicators in italics.
Another great puzzle from Harry to brighten up our day! How does he keep coming up with these great clues while maintaining the sex and drugs references for which he is renowned, … Read more >>
Eccles has produced today’s puzzle, offering me a rare opportunity to blog an example of this compiler’s work. I thoroughly enjoyed this puzzle, which I consider to be pitched at exactly the right … Read more >>
Crosophile provides the Tuesday challenge this week. There’s a couple of references to BEES using different meanings of the word. There is an engineering flavour – AGGREGATE, COFFERDAM and SHINGLE. … Read more >>
A lively and mostly accessible puzzle.
The quirks of the crosswording S&B schedules mean that it’s the Peter and Pierre show this morning. We are not related. Or the same person, obviously. A steady and generally … Read more >>
Well I never…quite literally. I’m staggered to learn that in 652 posts here I haven’t once had the privilege of covering a Knut puzzle until today. So here we are. It’s an unusual … Read more >>
Another Phi-day comes round and yet another classic Phi puzzle. As we have now come to expect, we can’t help feeling that there is something going on here, but we can’t find … Read more >>