Never knowingly undersolved
Our comment on the last puzzle by eXternal contained the following: “Good puzzle – a few head-scratching moments, a few smiles and a few new definitions – just the way to start the … Read more >>
Monk is occupying Phi’s usual Friday slot today. Having solved the puzzle, I see no particular reason, e.g. a theme or anniversary, that would explain why Friday is not Phiday this week, but … Read more >>
Today’s puzzle from Tees provides a good Thursday workout This was a puzzle of two halves for me. I solved around half of the clues fairly quickly but took a … Read more >>
Dac never fails. His clues always have excellent surfaces and their parsing is straightforward and not open to argument.
Definitions underlined.
Phi on a Tuesday? Is there something special coming on Phiday? This was an enjoyable solve, as usual, with only a couple of checks required – we’d not come across the … Read more >>
There was much to enjoy in this puzzle despite its political and sports references not being of my persuasion. I struggled with the first part of 5/12 until I resorted to Google and I’m … Read more >>
Another quality puzzle from Poins, with lots of nice anagrams to work through. I managed this in one sitting in the pub, making for a very pleasant Sunday afternoon. I don’t seem to … Read more >>
Classic Klingsor really, and very enjoyable. I seemed to get through this fairly swiftly, though the crossing pair of 10 across and 7 down beat me completely, and I had to go online … Read more >>
A standard Friday crossword from Phi today If there is an overt theme or message in today’s crossword it has eluded me. It looks just like a good commuter crossword … Read more >>
For a long time — in fact until I actually did the blog — I thought that this was themed around 14ac 21dn and was prepared to apologise for my ignorance of his works. but it became clear that in fact the theme was more general. Hob has fitted in many answers with a link to the theme and I have probably missed some of them.
All very cleverly done and apart from my very occasional doubts, which are probably unjustified anyway, a pleasant crossword.
The Don takes over Dac’s end of the month Wednesday slot, with a relatively straightforward puzzle. One or two synonyms seemed a little tenuous to us, but they didn’t hold up progress too … Read more >>
It has fallen to Scorpion to put us through our cruciverbal paces today. I had to chip away at this one, gradually working my way through the clues, rather than solving them in … Read more >>
*=anagram [] = removed e.g. char[m]=char ()=abbreviation e.g. A(mpere)=a Hom. = homophone I’ve not come across Commoner much, although the name sounds familiar (maybe I’m confusing it with Everyman). This was a mostly … Read more >>
Always a pleasure to get a Raich puzzle to solve and blog. Only a couple that held me up here, and those were down to my muppetry rather than the quality of the … Read more >>
I made some notes when I solved this: First pass of the clues – 10 minutes – 1 answered (18D – 2nd to last clue read) One. That’s all. It’s Nimrod. Oh dear. … Read more >>