Never knowingly undersolved
Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water … … and that we were all done and dusted with the 2015 election, along comes Knut with a … Read more >>
Th puzzle may be found at http://www.theguardian.com/crosswords/cryptic/26574.
Some difficult wordplays to decode (e.g. 15A, 22D) with a typical rate of Big Red Book consultations. About medium for an Azed I’d say. Still would like some enlightenment below. Enlightenment provided by Norman and Sidey (thanks!)
A good and very enjoyable Sunday puzzle that I found trickier than usual. I think that the general level of difficulty of the IoS has gone up over the time I have been blogging it. I wonder if this is editorial policy or just random variation? Possibly just a natural decline in my faculties.
A slightly hasty post this week, while I rush to get everything in place before going abroad. Still, I think everything was quite clear. A good challenge though, with the top left corner … Read more >>
For those that haven’t picked up on it yet, the last puzzle from ‘Everyman’ was a few weeks ago: 3573, which had a ‘farewell’ theme and which Peter O blogged. Allan Scott, having … Read more >>
The usual eclectic mix from Paul.
Enjoyable – and topical? – fare from Morph for this week’s Prize puzzle… At the end of a 9A TUMULT-uous week in British politics, there seemed to be subliminal references all over this. … Read more >>
To paraphrase the Monty Python ‘Australian Wine’ sketch (and I may have done this before, so apologies in advance): ‘…this is not a crossword for solving, this is a crossword for laying down … Read more >>
A delightful pleasant puzzle from a much welcome setter today. Redshank gives us a relatively easy challenge with appropriate sprinkles of innovative cluing and generally clean surfaces. A couple of clues caught my fancy, especially 24ac and 7d. Thanks to Redshank, who rounds off an incredible week for the FT aficionados.
Today saw my monthly Friday encounter with Phi. I found this to be a medium-difficulty Phi puzzle. I made steady progress through it from the start almost to the finish, faltering only in … Read more >>
The puzzle may be found at http://www.theguardian.com/crosswords/cryptic/26572.
It’s a real treat for me to get Vlad’s second puzzle to blog. I’ve come to grief several times with his Tyrus puzzles in the Indy – he’s there today – so I … Read more >>
Tyrus has given us a good challenge today with only one entry that I don’t remember coming across before. The one word that was new to me was ALAMEDA at … Read more >>
A curate’s egg. Our enjoyment was spoiled by what we saw as some very contrived answers necessitated by the special feature referred to in the rubric.