Never knowingly undersolved
Dac is occupying his traditional Wednesday slot, while this blogger is exceptionally late with his blog for technical reasons beyond his control, alas. Finding a wi-fi network strong enough to upload this blog … Read more >>
Radian has produced a very enjoyable crossword today An interesting crossword with a WELL worked use of the anwer to 8 across [WELL WELL] using it as WELL [half of … Read more >>
So it’s Crosophile to start our week here, he has a history of including extra treats in the grid but at first sight there appears to be no Nina…
(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.) I made things difficult for myself, … Read more >>
It’s about a year since eXternal and I first crossed swords over a pencil and a pint, and since then I try to have a go the puzzle when I hear it’s been set … Read more >>
Well what a ‘tease’ we have had this week. We wondered what was going on when Phi disappeared from his normal Phiday slot and appeared on TEESday instead – sorry TUESday!! There is … Read more >>
It has fallen to Morph to occupy the Thursday compiling slot this week and to me to occupy the associated blogging slot. I thoroughly enjoyed this one, which provided a moderate-to-difficult challenge and … Read more >>
It’s Wednesday – it’s Dac This puzzle is a good puzzle for the less experienced solver. I think solvers with long experience of Dac will have found this towards the … Read more >>
When I saw that Phi was appearing on a Tuesday I expected a crossword in his slightly harder mode than usual, which we sometimes see in other places. But no, it seems his regular Friday crossword has simply been shunted to Tuesday.
Why this has happened is anyone’s guess. I won’t even think about what it might be. It’s probably the anniversary of some group’s first no. 1 or something.
As always almost everything seems to be immaculate, with the usual crop of excellent clues. The only problem is my failing to see a Nina. But that’s usual, especially with Phi.
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*=anagram [] = removed e.g. char[m]=char ()=abbreviation e.g. A(mpere)=a <=reversed Hom. = homophone The usual entertaining fare from Punk with some inventive cluing devices. As a beer fan, I quite liked 16. 24/8 … Read more >>
I found the constructions trickier than usual for the IoS but most of the clues had straightforward one-word definitions which meant I filled the grid quickly even if explaining it all took quite a while.
Thanks Poins.
My turn coincides again with Anax’s – I’m sure it will bring a few chuckles. Some lovely stuff here – all very clever, yet nothing that I couldn’t parse. Of the clues : : … Read more >>
It wouldn’t be Friday without Phi, would it?! I found this tougher than the average Phi puzzle and made fairly slow progress through the whole grid. The SE corner proved to be the … Read more >>
Hieroglyph is not seen very often in the Independent. A quick scan of the clues showed very quickly that there was a theme in the across clues given that each … Read more >>
As usual of course. When is Dac ever anything but as usual? Such simply-constructed clues, nothing remotely tortuous.
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