Never knowingly undersolved
(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.) Slow to get started, but the … Read more >>
(Please post comments on ONLY the picture quiz hereinbelow. To post comments on the crossword puzzle, please click here.) Slow to get started, but the pace quickened towards the finish (maybe it was … Read more >>
A reunion with the Don this Friday. A very pleasant challenge with some clues that were just out of reach (annoyingly so) as a direct solve. I had to resort to looking up Google for confirming the parsing for a couple of clues.
Well, it’s Phiday again, and he seems to be getting tougher these days. Last week’s offering seemed more tricky than usual, and this one also took us longer than expected. Although Phi denies … Read more >>
Always a pleasure to see Redshank’s name at the top of a grid.
It has been a long time since it has fallen to me to blog a puzzle by Klingsor, so I was keen to get my teeth into this one this morning. This particular … Read more >>
THe puzzle may be found at http://www.theguardian.com/crosswords/cryptic/26505.
Monday Prize Crossword/Feb 16, 2015
While still in the aftermath of moving house, I did find the time to solve (and blog) this Dante puzzle. I think it was a typical one, wasn’t it?
Prize puzzle from the Weekend FT of February 14, 2015 I found this puzzle much easier than the last Goliath. And I enjoyed it more too. My clue of the week is 6d … Read more >>
A middle-difficulty puzzle from Monk, clues are absolutely watertight as usual. Thanks Monk for another top-quality puzzle.
I enjoyed solving this one. As one who delights in witty, story-telling surfaces, I’ve sometimes despaired of some of Brummie’s but there are some really interesting pictures conjured up by some of these! … Read more >>
Quixote has given us a puzzle today with some good anagrams. I don’t think is the best puzzle that Quixote has ever produced, but it proved a entertaining challenge with … Read more >>
There was a fairly lengthy preamble to this weeks puzzle by Ifor. It stated "six clues whose answers share a general definition consist only of wordplay. These answers must be thematically changed to … Read more >>
Knut made his debut only the other day. Now he appears again, and much of this continues the good start he made. There is a lot I don’t understand; my temptation is to say that some of the clues are a bit weak or unsound, but I don’t dare to because it’s far more likely that I’m missing things.
It’s a very strange grid — perfectly OK and no solecisms with the checking. Was this, together with the large number of clues, done in order to fit in some theme? If it was then I can’t see it.
Definitions underlined.
Whilst solving this one I felt that some of the definitions and/or parts of wordplay were a bit of a stretch but this didn’t prevent a speedy completion. However, there is still one clue … Read more >>