Never knowingly undersolved
Good fun as always from Paul, with a mini-theme around the two long answers. I got both of these early on, from the enumerations and a few crossing letters, and the rest didn’t … Read more >>
The Tuesday slot this week is filled by Hieroglyph, whose puzzles I have hitherto had little experience of either solving or blogging. Having spotted the grid’s perimeter, I wondered if we were in … Read more >>
Monday morning and of course it’s Rufus, oh hang on it’s not.
I haven’t blogged a Punk puzzle in ages, so I was pleased to see Mr Halpern’s moniker at the top of the crossword this morning. In Another Place, as Paul, the setter has … 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.) An enjoyable straightforward Quiptic with nice … Read more >>
(Please post comments on ONLY the picture quiz hereinbelow. To post comments on the crossword puzzle, please click here.) An enjoyable straightforward Quiptic with nice storytelling surfaces in the clues, thanks to Provis … Read more >>
It may be my imagination, but I do seem to be drawing an easier share of the weeks than Gaufrid recently. In this case I managed all but a single square unaided. That … Read more >>
The puzzle may be found at http://www.theguardian.com/crosswords/everyman/3573.
The preamble told us that in 11 clues the wordplay produces a letter surplus to the solution. In order, these 11 letters provide a cryptic definition for 10 other solutions, represented in their … Read more >>
Took me ages to get going with this one; I’m putting it down to having to put the clocks forward and my brain therefore not being in gear on this Sunday morning. Some … Read more >>
I managed to charge through this pretty quickly at my desk while pretending to work (and listening to The Rolling Stones on YouTube — unrelated I think). A couple of wordplays still to resolve which I fully plan to… (best laid plans…)
We started off very quickly with both of us solving 1AC as soon as we looked at the clue. Despite the setter, we wondered if we might be in for an easy solve. … Read more >>
I know that Otterden has plenty of admirers here but regular readers will know that he does not feature in my long list of favourite setters and so I have followed Qaos’ advice … Read more >>
Some normal clues to be jumbled and some clues with additional letters in the wordplay to be entered normally. The extra letters spelling out the adventurous group who are in two symmetrically placed … Read more >>
Every Friday we have the same thing, a very satisfactory and pleasant crossword from Phi, with few if any points of controversy. Initially, when I saw the answer ‘raindrop’ I thought Phi was balancing out all those rock music Ninas we so often have, by having nicknames of pieces of music, possibly just by Chopin, but either he is, and I am ignorant, or this was a false lead.
As usual with Phi for some reason, I was slow to start but then made steady progress.