Never knowingly undersolved
To improve Swindon(*) there needs to be a regeneration of the town centre, enhanced infrastructure, new homes, businesses, and public spaces to promote a vibrant and sustainable community, while also addressing issues like active travel and climate change.
But we’ve got a crossword to blog first …
After the heady excitement of Cyclops’ 800th puzzle milestone last time out, he is ‘back to the day job’ of producing high quality puzzles satirising the high-and-mighty and playing fast-and-loose with the Venn diagram of cryptic puzzle convention and irreverence…
After last week’s teasing “nearly” eight hundred tucked away in the perimeter unches, Cyclops makes no bones about it and we find EIGHT HUNDRED CYCLOPS CROSS WORDS in clear among the across answers.
Cyclops is on the cusp of yet another numerical milestone…an octo-centenary!…
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A nice solid puzzle in this issue.
Not too hard, except for the last clue – funny how it’s always the last clue solved that’s tricksiest.
Most was filled in on the first pass, but a couple resisted till the end.
Cyclops is perhaps a little more Cyclops-ean than usual this fortnight…
A nice solid puzzle in this issue.
Not too hard, except for the last clue – funny how it’s always the last clue solved that’s tricksiest.
Most was filled in on the first pass, but a handful resisted till the end.
Cyclops laughs in the face of ‘Dry January’ (although I prefer to think of it as ‘Dry Gin-uary’…)
This was a Pseuds Corner special. An event that recurs every leap year.
I’m sure there is a very good reason.
Pseuds Corner is one of the several longstanding mini sections in the Eye (link) and it deserves it longevity.
Just a brief intro for this Eye crossword.
I must save my energies for the Xmas monster that will appear in a couple of days.
A relatively tame puzzle from Cyclops, in terms of political satire and skoolboy smuttery in the clueing, that is…
Private Eye has a number of parts that have provided solid amusement for many years decades. I always find a handful of cartoons that catch my funny bone. Of course there are the serious sections too, but other long standing humorous sections that somehow keep delivering include Colman CommentatorBalls and Look-a-likes.
Another is the Eye crossword.
Cyclops has some depressingly doom-laden (if they come true) prophecies this fortnight…