Never knowingly undersolved
This was a good puzzle from Hieroglyph with some interesting cluing. I’m not sure what the purists will make of WARHEAD in 11 across to define W and WHIPPET in … Read more >>
Only yesterday I was reading the view of someone that we are in a golden age of crosswords. We are certainly in a golden age so far as Dac is concerned, since for the past several years he has almost weekly produced a perfectly-formed object.
What a great puzzle from Knut today – many thanks for the fun. This is a really ingenious construction with many references in both the clues and the entries to the Greek … Read more >>
() = abbreviation e.g. a(mpere) hom = homophone [] = letters removed Vigo seems to be a new compiler and this was a good candidate for a gentle Monday puzzle. There was nothing … Read more >>
I’ll admit to something of a double take on seeing Monk’s name appear when opening this week’s puzzle via Crossword Solver. So much so that, it being a rare week where I’d not … Read more >>
Something very fishy about this crossword. Very fishy indeed. I think we should call in the Feds to find out what’s going on because it looks like someone has ended up sleeping with the … Read more >>
It’s Friday and it’s Phi with a typical puzzle This was a puzzle that cried out theme as the first and last columns developed. I thought it unlikely to be … Read more >>
A nice, crossword from Morph today. I found it slightly on the hard side, though now that I’ve done the blog I can’t see why. The (possibly) CDs round the middle of the acrosses were a bit of a problem, but everything else seemed to fall into place well enough.
Some would make a very mild criticism of the answers in the grid: 18dn ends with the word OFF, as does 25ac. Possibly not the best: I did 18dn and then couldn’t believe that 25ac also ended with the same word, but there aren’t many possibilities for _ _ F.
Definitions in italics.
Quixote fills Dac’s Wednesday slot this week. We found this a somewhat frustrating but ultimately fairly straightforward solve – frustrating because at first it looked as though there might be a theme, … Read more >>
Today’s cruciverbal challenge has been provided by Knut, a setter whose work I have only limited experience of. Perhaps due to that limited experience, I didn’t feel that I was really on Knut’s … Read more >>
A sound Monday puzzle in the usual Raich style. Several that I found difficult to parse, and one I can’t parse at all. Abbreviations cd cryptic definition dd double definition … Read more >>
Don’t quite know what to make of this one. Certainly more difficult than the usual IoS offering. There’s one I can’t quite see. Abbreviations cd cryptic definition dd double definition (xxxx)* … Read more >>
Sat at the cricket between innings and whilst a light drizzle prevents play the perfect time to do a crossword. Klingsor comes in to bowl ….. Some quite interesting clues for Klingsor too … Read more >>
Phi has not in my opinion shone quite so brightly this week as he usually does. It seems to me that several of the definitions, both of the answers and within the wordplay, are rather tenuous, although no doubt people will explain how I am missing things.
I took a long time to finish the NW corner; Rienzi was slow to appear, even though Phi gave us plenty of help by defining it as a German opera, which immediately cut out more than half of them. 12ac was apparently unsound, but more likely never properly understood, and the double definition at 8dn was also a problem. When I gave up and went to aids my Chambers Crossword Dictionary didn’t help: Bradford may have been better.
We always look forward to the Thursday Indy puzzle with a certain sense of trepidation, as they have a reputation for being more challenging than the rest of the week. When we … Read more >>