Private Eye/Cyclops

I thought this was going to be over too soon. I swept through most of the top half after getting 1a and 4 with ease delivering all those first letters, (I wondered about … Read more >>

After the fun-and-games of the wonderful Xmas special, we are back to ‘normal’ Cyclops… …with lots of Brexit-ian parallels that can be drawn – politicians are CHEWING THE CUD this weekend, before more CHEAP … Read more >>

Headmistress has written quite a lot – 585 pages I hear. So I suppose we should be thankful this annual giant puzzle is still only 27×27 instead of something much larger. The puzzle … Read more >>

Private Eye snuck out a 1-week issue so by now most of you will be stuck into the Christmas monster.  I’m going to start just as soon as I’ve posted this blog. Solving: … Read more >>

…that seems to be the choice, at the start of this momentous week, and Cyclops has his finger pretty much on the pulse… …with LIKE IT OR LUMP IT seeming to sum up the … Read more >>

Because the Eye crossword allows us the luxury of over a week to solve it I often wait till the mood takes me. This time I felt like solving it straight away … … Read more >>

An enjoyable Cyclops solve – some politics, some smut, some more politics and then a bit more smut… Trump gets four mentions in the clues – although two are just to get to … Read more >>

During the first half of solving this there seemed to be a large number of anagrams .  Then after the half-time orange, I seemed to find charade after charade It was just the … Read more >>

When you have Charles, Brenda, Trump, Clinton, May, Boris, Thatcher, Corbyn and (Jeffrey) Archer all making appearances in the clues, it has to be a Cyclops! Quite light on the smut-tery for a … Read more >>

There is the usual swathe of political subject matter in the clues, but besides the grid centring on Jeremy Corbyn, there isn’t much in the answers. Favourite clue must be the long anagram … Read more >>

Cyclops is pretty much on-the-button this fortnight, with some familiar establishment targets, and a recently-resigned minister, to boot… Some historical references too – MUSSOLINI, Queen Vic’s (apocryphal?) saying – (we are) NOT AMUSED … Read more >>

Another fairly routine Eye puzzle this time. Nothing hugely topical or interesting to call out. Solving was easy enough for the first pass which ended with much more than half  the grid filled:  … Read more >>

A fairly routine puzzle from Cyclops…nothing obviously topical or too complicated… …which is handy, as I am currently ‘walkabout’ in Australia on a family holiday, with minimal spare time for solving/blogging. A quick … Read more >>

… again. There is a central issue in this crossword. Solving was almost a clean sweep. I attempted but failed to cold solve the two down clues in the leftmost column: 1 and … Read more >>

Cyclops has his finger on the Brexit pulse this fortnight…if it still has a pulse?… …with references to the scheming Boris, ‘pathetic Remoaners’, a ‘burnt-out’ UKIP leader and loathesome Lords. A passing mention … Read more >>