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Cyclops 762 – Flaccid Dissidence
A typical Cyclops – maybe a bit harder than some recent ones, for your correspondent, at least…
Private Eye ( Cyclops / 761) Optimal Disinformation
I thought I would be tackling this puzzle while resting up after getting a new hip. But it didn’t happen, again. The last time it didn’t happen in July was down to hospital … Read more >>
Cyclops 760 – Yesterday’s Conspiracy
I have to admit to leaving this blog to the last minute, due to imminent-holiday preparations, so the solving process is a little hazy…but in hindsight it seems all up to scratch for a Cyclops…
Private Eye (Cyclops / 759) Hopeless Anarchist
I did that silly thing. Grab the Eye as soon as it hit the doormat and tackled the puzzle. I must go back to my rule of reading the damn thing before I … Read more >>
Cyclops 758 – Luxurious Voyeurism
Cyclops serves up a dollop of serendipitous Schadenfreude, this fortnight…
Private Eye ( Cyclops / 757 ) Redacted Normality
I had trouble trying to choose a title for this blog. There are so many adjectives in the answers compared to the number of nouns, and many of those adjectives lend themselves to … Read more >>
Cyclops 756 – Redundant Manifesto
Another fortnight, another Cyclops, and another mix of politicians and celebs (sub-lebs?) in Cyclops’ sights…although, thinking about it, how does a one-eyed giant use a gun-sight…surely binocular vision is de rigueur for that?…
Private Eye ( Cyclops / 755 ) Public Order Disaster
As is usual from Cyclops the clue surfaces are at their story-telling best, and in the usual Private Eye style giving the usual suspects a knocking. Solving was, in retrospect, usual, but only … Read more >>
Cyclops 754 – Old-Etonian Misgovernment
I have to admit to leaving this blog to the last minute (i.e. forgetting the new Friday deadline)…but, serendipitously…
Private Eye ( Cyclops / 753 ) Sunny Subversive
Another burst of salacious school days humour and political satirising to brighten our fortnight. This time with added references to an old-time glam-rocker. It’s as if the puzzle was specifically constructed to someone … Read more >>
Cyclops 752 – Pig-headed Intruder
Just like the news these last few days, this puzzle is a little Trump-heavy, with three mentions in the clues…
Private Eye ( Cyclops / 751 ) Hideous Ordeal
A pleasurable ordeal maybe. No surprise that in an Eye puzzle we find ignoramuses having orgasms, party members that turn out to be dildos, and a whole ensemble spilling semen. But possibly the … Read more >>
Cyclops 750 – Austerity Sadist
A significant milestone for Cyclops, if the numerologists are to be believed, with puzzle number 750…three quarters of a millennium…
Private Eye ( Cyclops / 749 ) Tactless Scoundrel
You haven’t fallen asleep and woken up on Monday. From now on the Eye blog will now appear on Saturday. One of those that I thought was going to be a doddle, then … Read more >>