Never knowingly undersolved
Took me a while to get started with this one, but that could just be me in lazy Bank Holiday mood. It all fell out steadily in the end, with some clues I … Read more >>
Sorry, sorry, sorry – late blog – with no excuse at all. I had this blog ready to go apart from the words at the top and simply forgot. I seem to have … Read more >>
The puzzle may be found at http://www.theguardian.com/crosswords/everyman/3580.
When I finished this puzzle I made a mental note of what I was going to say in this preamble – over very quickly (for a Beelzebub), a lot of easy entry clues, … Read more >>
(Please click here for this same blog but with a picture quiz added. Please do NOT post hereinbelow any comment relating to the picture quiz. Thank you.) As commented by Pee Dee last … Read more >>
A plain Azed this week with its usual precise cluing leading to a mix of common and obscure words. I was held up for a while with the misdirection at … Read more >>
(Please post comments on ONLY the picture quiz hereinbelow. To post comments on the crossword puzzle, please click here.) As commented by Pee Dee last week, are the IoS puzzles generally getting more … Read more >>
A Saturday in May – a tussle with Nestor. Always a taxing time Lots of interesting clues from Nestor. Certainly not a run of the mill crossword – barely a simple clue in … Read more >>
A fun prize puzzle, this week from Philistine. (I think I’ve been quite lucky in getting good puzzles to post about on the prize puzzle rota, since the weekday Guardian crosswords I’ve done … Read more >>
This week, there was the second Shark puzzle since the clocks went forward at the end of March. It probably meant that we had a date-related theme in front of us. I’ve had … Read more >>
A fantastic puzzle from Alberich which I got around to solving only pretty late in the day. But it was well worth the wait, with an eclectic mix of innovative cluing and precise wordplay. Thorough enjoyed this. Had to google to confirm a couple of responses but otherwise all good !!
Another tough but entertaining work-out from Screw. Looking back at the preamble to my blog of his last puzzle, I see that I mentioned how the parsing came rather later in some cases … Read more >>
Phi-day again, and the usual well-crafted puzzle. We always look for a theme or nina in Phi’s puzzles, but initially we couldn’t see either in this one. However, Phi is playing … Read more >>
Klingsor has provided us with our cruciverbal workout this Thursday. I thoroughly enjoyed this puzzle, finding it medium-to-hard on the difficulty scale and definitely a puzzle that I had to chip away at, … Read more >>
Lots of nice clues and surfaces…