Never knowingly undersolved
I was going to say that this is Paul’s weekly appearance but last week we had him twice within four days so who knows what tomorrow will bring. A typical Paul with the … Read more >>
A flawed masterpiece from the always-reliable Redshank.
We always look forward to a Morph puzzle, and still cannot forget his brilliant Limerick based puzzle back in May
The puzzle may be found at http://www.theguardian.com/crosswords/cryptic/26416.
Monday Prize Crossword/Nov 3
After last week’s tour de force by Gaff, back to normal. Normal? I thought this puzzle was clearly at “the easier end of Dante’s spectrum”, that is, if there is such a thing. Others may disagree but I breezed through this at a, for me, unusually high speed.
Prize puzzle from the Weekend FT of November 1, 2014
An excellent puzzle, really good fun to solve. I found this a good level of difficulty too, it was a satisfying solve without becoming a “struggle to the death” like the Wednesday slot can sometimes be. Thanks Chalmie!
Edit (0730 13/11/14): The site should now be back to normal. Sorry for any inconvenience to users of a mobile device. In an attempt to track down the cause of excess CPU usage … Read more >>
A really elegant and thoroughly enjoyable puzzle from Nutmeg today.
Today sees my monthly blogging encounter with Dac and his highly sound clues with their silky-smooth surfaces.
Simple rubric this week, and a relatively straightforward puzzle, completed on Saturday.
What an excellent puzzle! Some may disagree with this statement but I enjoyed every minute of it.
Good stuff from Jason…
On the easy side for Pasquale, but with nice cluing and a few obscure words as usual…
A software update this afternoon has caused an elderly WordPress plug-in to malfunction, resulting in an error which created display abnormalities. This plug-in generated the ‘paged comments’ in the above two posts. To avoid the error I … Read more >>