Never knowingly undersolved
This week’s Beelzebub was excellent train company on a trek home from The North. I don’t tend to keep note of timings, but since I was still finishing Inquisitor as the train passed … Read more >>
A classic Beelzebub of about average difficulty, I found, though with some quite tricky parsings, and plenty of nice long anagrams to work through. I’m a way behind with these due to a … Read more >>
Raffles is a new setter to me, although I see he has had a couple of Magpie puzzles. Here every across clue needs treatment; most need partial treatment, three need treatment in their … Read more >>
I think this was the toughest prize puzzle we’ve done in while (admittedly we’re mostly just doing them on blogging weeks at the moment due to lack of time), but a satisfying one … Read more >>
My goodness I found this hard. I started OK with 7 answers in, plus 2 tentative, on the first pass. Then I ground to a stutter and had to leave it for the … Read more >>
Another Phiday! We found this a bit trickier than usual, but none the worse for that. As usual, great clueing and a good mix of clue types. 1ac had us puzzled as we … Read more >>
Tricky fun from Crucible today…
I haven’t been particularly impressed by Otterden’s puzzles in the past, and I’m afraid this one has done nothing to change my opinion. To repeat what I said on a previous occasion, “there … Read more >>
The common cold has clogged my neurons this morning, so what a relief it was to see the blessed name of Orense pop up on screen.
Tees is occupying the Thursday slot, one which is visited by a wide range of compilers over the course of a year. I enjoyed this one immensely, solving the longer entries at the … Read more >>
Monday Prize Crossword/Nov 24 Neat puzzle by Crux with a few cross-references thrown in this time. Definitions are underlined wherever possible and/or appropriate. Across 1 ONE BY ONE HM’s autobiography, perhaps, in single … Read more >>
Prize puzzle from the Weekend FT of November 22, 2014 Some people have mentioned this before and, on this occasion, even I am struck by Mudd’s heavy use of double definitions. He starts … Read more >>
A fun puzzle from puzzle from Gozo of a form I have not seen before. You can download a PDF of the puzzle from the FT website here.
What is there to say about a Dac puzzle that hasn’t been said before? I could very easily just link to, or copy and paste from, the preamble I wrote four weeks ago. … Read more >>