Never knowingly undersolved
For some reason, I found this puzzle in some parts more challenging than any this week but it was hard to see why at the end. Brummie is not known for the smoothness … Read more >>
Phi has provided us with a good Friday workout. I wondered if there was a bit of a food and drink theme in here, but I’m not really sure. I … Read more >>
This was extraordinarily hard. In several places I’m not really sure what is happening and it seems to me that Donk has been less than accurate, but he has in the past produced quite excellent crosswords; perhaps he has done so this time: it may just be going over my head.
Took me a while to get into this…
A straightforward, but clever and elegant crossword. Thanks, Redshank.
Monday Prize Crossword / Jul 20, 2015
Dante as Dante can be. Meaning: mostly easy but then he’ll have you to start thinking about how to fully complete the puzzle.
Prize puzzle from the Weekend FT of July 18, 2015
I started off quite easily in the top-left, which made me double check that it was actually by Monk. Things soon got back to normal and there followed a satisfying struggle to finish. My apologies for the late posting, the morning has been an endless sequence of interruptions. There is certainly a Nina in here somewhere, I will start hunting for it now and update the post when I find it. Thank you Monk, excellent as always.
After yesterday’s expert duffing-up by Vlad I was expecting (or hoping for?) something a little gentler today, but I found this one pretty hard too. However, it was soundly and accurately clued (apart … Read more >>
Our first thoughts when we saw the puzzle was the rather odd looking grid – the same thoughts we had yesterday. This time however, there was no apparent reason for the fact that … Read more >>
Preamble: Most clues contain either wordplay yielding an extra or missing letter or a single-letter misprint in the definition (approximately equal numbers of each). In order, the extra/missing/ correct letters give a quotation … Read more >>
Many thanks Turbolegs for stepping into the breach – Gaufrid
It would appear that the scheduled blogger has been unable to be with us today. I will try to get a quick analysis of the clues posted early this evening (when I’ve solve … Read more >>
Sorry I’m not able to give full justice to this great crossword
Hieroglyph is occupying this week’s Tuesday slot, with one of his themed puzzles for us to crack. Like the themed puzzle of his that I blogged on bird species, there are a couple … Read more >>