Private Eye/Cyclops

Back to a slightly tougher crossword this time.  At least that’s how I found it, both to get started and to find those last pesky couple of answers. I’ll admit after getting started, … Read more >>

A Cyclops of average difficulty this week (seems like I always say that!), with nothing that held me up for long. I will go for 9d as my fave clue, for its complete … Read more >>

There was no obvious Jubilee theme from Cyclops – I assume he compiled it whilst wearing his union jack bowtie. Solving initially seemed a little slow, but once a few answers delivered some … Read more >>

An entertaining Cyclops puzzle this fortnight, with some clever wordplay. I think the very first clue, 8a, has to be my favourite. Across 8 UNDERDOG Don’t spy on park shaggers enough to be … Read more >>

Seemed to me Cyclops was making a particular theme of solitary sexual gratification this week. No? Just me then. I expect he didn’t really mean to milk it. You have to be to … Read more >>

First, further apologies — I promised to post this, already late, yesterday, but didn’t get home to my office (where this almost finished blog was waiting for me) until late. This was a pretty … Read more >>

This crossword was unusual in two respects. It had a large number of clues: This grid design gives 32 lights and only one clue involved two lights, whereas Cyclops often creates longer answers … Read more >>

The usual fun from Cyclops, who has managed as ever to work all sorts of salacious references into wordplay for simple and innocent words. Clue of the fortnight, though, has to be 17a, … Read more >>

How many tabloid editors or execs will end up in “Stalag Leveson”? Expectations are being laid by the number of people that have been arrested by Operations Weeting and Elveden, but preparations are … Read more >>

As Cyclops puzzles go, I thought this was pretty straightforward — none of those stubborn clues that hold you up once you have solved everything else. As usual, plenty of witty surface readings … Read more >>

Which Odd couple is Cyclops alluding to I wonder: Cameron and Idi Amin? Al Capone and Robin Hood? There’s an odd couple of bits of wordplay that are not pinned down to my … Read more >>

Oops, I hit ‘Publish’ before rescheduling this for midnight! I hope no one is discombobulated by the earliness. Sorry about the lack of a witty title, but I just can’t think of anything. … Read more >>

This surely rates as the gentlest start to a year yet, and the weather’s very mild for the time of year too. I had all but 4 answers filled in after the “first … Read more >>

Here’s hoping you all had a splendid time over the holidays, and wishing you a very happy and (cruciverbally, at the very least) successful 2012. This blog is due to appear for tomorrow … Read more >>

The festive season seems to have started early in the Eye with a couple of pantomimes opening. Solving-wise, I didn’t have any hold-up clues, and only needed one session to finish this.   As … Read more >>