Never knowingly undersolved
Hypnos occupies the mid-week slot this week – he’s been setting for the Indy for almost 10 years now, but mainly on Sundays – this is only our 2nd blog of one of … Read more >>
Radian’s latest offering fills the Tuesday slot this week. I found this to be a thoroughly entertaining, medium-difficulty puzzle, which I was able to complete to my satisfaction unaided, needing just to check … Read more >>
The maze making Daedalus returns for our Monday entertainment, but will it fly?
Please accept my apologies for being a little bit behind with this one. A full blog post will replace this once I get back from helping 75+ kids run around a park and get some coffee inside me.
Admin: I don’t know what has prevented Simon from returning. I have added an analysis of the clues but will leave it up to others to comment on them.
Having spent about a week wrestling with a Hob reprint in the ‘i’ a couple of weeks ago, being drawn to blog this one seemed a little daunting. Sure enough, I made a … Read more >>
The usual utterly sound and satisfactory crossword from Phi. As always, while doing it I found some of the clues a bit tricky, yet afterwards the reason for this was not obvious.
Definitions in maroon, underlined.
Due to a veritable comedy of errors Bert and Joyce are not able to blog the puzzle today so I’m standing in.
Tees has provided today’s cruciverbal pursuits, occupying what is traditionally Dac’s Wednesday slot. I found this quite a stiff challenge despite having got off to a flying start. The second half of the … Read more >>
A Hoskins puzzle today in the style we expect from this setter There were a few words that are not in my everyday vocabulary but nothing particularly un usual. I haven’t … Read more >>
I found this fairly hard-going and wasn’t able to finish it on my first run through. However, returning after an adjournment, it did yield fairly quickly.
Poins normally appears once a month in the IoS. In August we met on the windswept street corner on the rough side of town that is the Fifteensquared blog, and we meet again … Read more >>
This was a absolutely beautiful puzzle to solve. Not only does it have a highly interesting “chain” of 4 answers, but it is also a pangram! I suspected it was a pangram early … Read more >>
It’s very rare that we don’t enjoy a Phi-day puzzle at the end of the week and this was no exception. We are convinced that there must be a theme as there … Read more >>
Wiglaf is occupying the Thursday slot this week, and it is a while since it has fallen to me to blog one of his puzzles. That said, I found this one probably easier … Read more >>
A good commuter’s puzzle from Eccles today Well, what I mean is that it’s a puzzle that many solvers will be able to finish in under an hour. There aren’t … Read more >>