Never knowingly undersolved
A Morph puzzle as spring threatens to spring forth after another ridiculously mild winter. First of all I must congratulate Morph for mentioning the town I grew up in a clue. There was … Read more >>
This is my regular once in four weeks Friday and not surprisingly I find a puzzle by Phi I think this is just a standard puzzle free from ninas, themes, … Read more >>
As I said once when posting a remark about a Mudd puzzle in the FT, we don’t appreciate this setter enough. This puzzle contains a whole lot of utterly good, straightforward clues with sensible surfaces and no straining involved. I suppose that if you’re being picky there are rather a lot of full or almost full anagrams, but they’re all clued quite naturally.
Definitions underlined and in maroon.
Alchemi stands in for Dac this week. We found this slightly trickier than the average Wednesday fare. We were somewhat held up by the entry at 17d, which does not … Read more >>
Scorpion has provided today’s cruciverbal workout, which I am blogging rather late in the day owing to circumstances beyond my control. I really enjoyed this puzzle, finding that I needed to chip away … Read more >>
An enjoyable and fairly easy puzzle with some amusing clues.
An enjoyable Sunday solve from Raich once again. Whilst I don’t time solving, this one seemed quite brisk with few real holdups. Last one in was REARDON, partly because it took me a … Read more >>
I have had a few mental tussles with Serpent/Jack puzzles recently – regular and Genius/barred thematics – so approached this with some trepidation… …but it turned out to be a fairly straightforward solve, with … Read more >>
As always from Phi a crossword that doesn’t initially fall particularly easily but eventually does, and one looks back at the solutions and says how simple, how on earth did I miss that. Which is of course as it should be.
Definitions underlined and in maroon.
This was a challenging Thursday work-out from Anglio. There are some ingenious definitions (e.g. 13ac, 8d) crafty wordplay, and several clever cryptic definitions. Great for stirring up the grey matter while we’re … Read more >>
Dac is where he belongs today, occupying the Wednesday slot. I found this one to be tougher than the average Dac crossword, not least because of the more unusual vocabulary chosen – both … Read more >>
Tuesday Independent crosswords tend to be quite challenging and often have a theme I think today’s puzzle from Radian fits the bill. There are references to Daniel DEFOE and his novel … Read more >>
Body parts, body functions, bodily fluids exchange, beer and a bird. Harry Hoskins is in town. I was engaged by the puzzle, so have wittered on a bit. Abbreviations cd … Read more >>
Good puzzle for the IoS slot, I thought. A few harder ones, but once you’d got some crossers, it wasn’t too tricky to finish. You might have thought differently, so comments welcome. … Read more >>
Wow – this was a toughie from Hob – but that is what we have come to expect. We might have found it a little easier if we had been familiar with the … Read more >>