Never knowingly undersolved
Another smooth offering from Dac – one or two entries we needed to check, but all very clear from the excellent cluing. We hadn’t come across 4ac before and had to use electronic … Read more >>
Plenty to like here, with lots of cunning misdirection and nice surfaces. Most favourite was 29ac.
Preamble: Wordplay in down clues leads to an extra letter not to be entered in the grid. In clue order, these letters give advice concerning 47 across. Definitely one of the shortest preambles … Read more >>
It’s been a while since we saw Puck on a weekday, though he has done a couple of prize puzzles since. This was a welcome return, with a fairly tricky puzzle that kept … Read more >>
I have not solved or blogged many puzzles by Hieroglyph, so I approached this one with a mixture of curiosity and apprehension. A quick perusal of the across clues revealed a theme (revolving … Read more >>
Another Tuesday, another gentle start to the puzzle week at FT.
The former English teacher returns to the Quiptic slot with a puzzle that left this poor solver with a couple of self-inflicted wounds.
I found this an enjoyable puzzle which required a bit of work to tease out some of the parsings. The def in 17 is the only one I’m not sure about. 20 I … Read more >>
I originally thought this was going to be plain sailing (to use a nautical term so beloved by Rufus) because all but a handful of entries went in rapidly during my first pass … Read more >>
After struggling so much with 1,287, this one was quite a relief. A rare unaided, single session finish, but one that admittedly required writing in quite a few answers on little more than … Read more >>
I’m playing catchup again, almost like some sort of scandalously irresponsible blogger. In my defence, this week’s Beelzebub was blooming hard, and I’d actually finished 1,288 before this one was complete. I’m not … Read more >>
Azed gives us a jigsaw about every two years, and by the luck of the draw I also blogged the last one. As I said then, my first step with these is to … Read more >>
The puzzle may be found at http://www.theguardian.com/crosswords/everyman/3553.
We’ve had some very good puzzles in the IoS slot recently, I think, and this was another one. All pretty gettable (which is the brief for the Independent on Sunday) but with some … Read more >>
We enjoyed this Prize Puzzle from Tees. It took us a while to get started but once we had a few crossing letters things fell into place reasonably quickly. Joyce really likes short … Read more >>