Never knowingly undersolved
Another Wednesday, another excellent Dac puzzle. As always, excellent surfaces and very fair clueing. This puzzle includes three proper names – not what we have come to expect from Dac. No criticism, just … Read more >>
Radian’s latest puzzle lay in store for us this morning, although only in the afternoon is my blog of it being posted, for which I apologise. This was a medium-difficulty puzzle, in my … Read more >>
RatkojaRiku is away on business and may not be able to publish his blog until mid/late afternoon.
Once again the Indy’s web site isn’t showing today’s puzzle, the puzzle wasn’t as hard as eXternal sometimes produces fortunately.
Hoskins made his debut in the Monday Indy slot in September, so this is his second outing. Like my fellow blogger Neal, who covered that debut puzzle, I found this a bit of … Read more >>
I write this as an atrocity unfolds in Paris. Sometimes there are more important things in life than crosswords. So this week’s report is brief I did enjoy this puzzle with some typically … Read more >>
This was I thought one of Phi’s harder crosswords. The simplicity of the parsing in many cases doesn’t reflect the ease of solving.
But as always and as we have come to expect he has set a fair challenge full of good clues.
This is the third Knut puzzle that we have blogged. We have enjoyed the others with their topical themes but for some reason or other this did not hit the spot today. Maybe … Read more >>
Dac’s latest puzzle lay in store for us this Wednesday morning, as expected. I found this to be par for the course in terms of difficulty for a Dac puzzle, with two thirds … Read more >>
I have blogged a number of puzzles by Hieroglyph recently and continue to enjoy them Clearly there is a theme in today’s puzzle where Hieroglyph has managed to get a … Read more >>
* = anagram [] = removed A(mpere) = abbreviation This was a very nice thematic puzzle based on cops and criminals. There was fun to be had not just in solving the clues … Read more >>
(Please click here for this same blog but with a picture quiz added. Please do NOT post hereinbelow any comment relating to the picture quiz. Thank you.) An enjoyable not too taxing puzzle. … Read more >>
Fairly straightforward fare from Tyrus this week, if that is a fair summary? Some crisp clueing and nice surface readings, and no hidden tricks or themes…as far as I could tell anyway! An … Read more >>
Is it just us or is Phi getting harder? It’s not that the clues are more complex we feel rather that some of the synonyms are a little more obscure. We’re not complaining … Read more >>
It has been a while since it has fallen to me to blog a Tees puzzle, and I hope that I have done justice to it, despite being rather bleary-eyed after a long … Read more >>