Never knowingly undersolved
One of my quickest solves of a Gemelo puzzle, I think, but none the worse for that. Across 1 EGGNOGS These may go down well at Christmas to illustrate decoration reflecting saint … Read more >>
What a good crossword Gemelo has set. The surfaces are convincing and read sensibly, and the crossword gave me much pleasure to solve.
My guess is that anyone who does these crosswords will have a copy of Chambers to hand and so won’t need everything to be spelled out. In the parsing I have confined myself to explaining when the wordplay is not immediately clear.
Definitions in crimson, underlined. Anagrams indicated *(like this) or (like this)*
Gemelo marks his 50th puzzle with a new device.
Another well-crafted puzzle from Gemelo. I managed only a few solutions on my first pass, and I really felt stymied, but then one by one the clues suddenly seemed almost obvious.
The original puzzle may be found here.
A plain puzzle from Gemelo, with the usual collection of unfamiliar words to add to our vocabularies (and, at least in my case, to forget shortly afterwards). Thanks to Gemelo.
Some brilliant clues in this week’s plain puzzle.
Gemelo gives us a puzzle where the theme is clearly expressed in the clues There was a premble with this puzzle. Gemelo told us that ever since buying their greatest hits as a … Read more >>
A finely crafted puzzle this week. Solving the four long perimeter clues certainly helped lock the rest into place.
A standard Gemelo puzzle.
The very pleasant crossword that we have come to expect from Gemelo. There are several misleading and intricate pieces of wordplay.
My guess is that anyone who does these crosswords will have a copy of Chambers to hand and so won’t need everything to be spelled out. In the parsing I have confined myself to explaining when the wordplay is not immediately clear.
The original puzzle may be found here.
Following last week’s special, this is the expected plain puzzle from Gemelo.
Gemelo gives us a special puzzle this week where, for 12 entries, we have to put the opposite of the clue answer into the grid.
Apologies for the late blog…
Thanks to Gemelo for another ingeniously clued puzzle.