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.
Private Eye/Cyclops
Cyclops 797 – Greenland Hypnotist
Cyclops is perhaps a little more Cyclops-ean than usual this fortnight…
Private Eye (Cyclops / 796) Saccharin Affability
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 795 – Pie-Eyed Wassailer
Cyclops laughs in the face of ‘Dry January’ (although I prefer to think of it as ‘Dry Gin-uary’…)
Private Eye (Cyclops/794) Xmas Monster
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.
Private Eye (Cyclops/793) Embalm Statesman
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.
Cyclops 792 – Polemical Patronage
A relatively tame puzzle from Cyclops, in terms of political satire and skoolboy smuttery in the clueing, that is…
Private Eye (Cyclops/791) Unpaid Pension
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 790 – Supreme Election-Denier
Cyclops has some depressingly doom-laden (if they come true) prophecies this fortnight…
Private Eye (Cyclops/789) – Flagrant Nudity
Another fun-packed episode from our one-eyed friend
This was classic Eye fare with the usual disreputable and sometimes downright disgusting surface readings. (27A Long may it continue.
Cyclops 788 – Boorish Earworm
Cyclops has a couple of topical references this fortnight, and thankfully none of them involves Ronald T Dump…
Private Eye (Cyclops/787) Sorry Oligarchy
A Cyclops puzzle that started out easy and got harder as I went on. That shouldn’t happen!
Cyclops 786 – Celebrate Gnome
Cyclops seems to have some fundamental things on his mind, this fortnight…
Private Eye (Cyclops/785) Absymal Setback
I’m suffering weekly bloggers malaise.
That’s where you have bags of time to prepare a blog, and solve the puzzle, take notes, and prepare the main part of the blog but leave the opening words till the last minute. Then on every reminder click “remind me later” till it can’t be ignored. Then realise you have largely forgotten about it all.
Cyclops 784 – Gymnast Stiffy
This fortnight’s title alludes to the, maybe apocryphal, story/video doing the e-rounds of a pole-vaulter who successfully negotiated the bar on his way up but then dislodged it on the way down with his…