Never knowingly undersolved
It seems that Everyman is now closer to producing the sort of pleasant sound straightforward crossword that we used to see in the Everyman slot and which had seemed to be things of the past.
Definitions in crimson, underlined. Indicators (anagram, homophone, juxtaposition, reversal, etc) in italics. Anagrams indicated *(like this) or (like this)*. Link-words in green,
Gemelo presents his fourth Observer Sunday cryptic crossword and gives me my first opportunity to blog his Sunday work. I have, however, blogged a number of puzzles under his alter ego, Twin, in the Independent series.
Coot – a new name for me to blog. As the premiership season begins.
This week’s 11 x 11 crossword from the Guardian, intended to teach cryptic crosswords, found here
Cyclops still on puerile form with an Eye puzzle I found on the hard side this time.
Are you a methodical solver – start at the first A, work through to the last D – or a ‘flitter’ – eyes darting around the clues and looking for a quick way in?
A proper headscratcher from GAFF this Friday.
We have a normal end to the Independent weekday set of puzzles with a crossword set by Phi
The puzzle may be found at https://www.theguardian.com/crosswords/cryptic/29774.
Amoeba has been setting for the Independent fairly regularly over the last year. He usually appears on Saturdays or (as here) Thursdays.
It’s the usual summer-holiday reshuffle of the blog rotas: I’m covering for Eileen today, and she will return the favour later this month.
Mudd is the setter of this morning's FT puzzle.
“Four horizontal bars have been omitted from the two central columns. Having filled the grid, solvers must highlight a pair of words in the outer two columns that describe an action, and show its IMPACT on the grid by moving a thematic block of cells within the central columns, displacing another block and creating five new down entries, no two of which have the same length, to be delineated by adding four bars. The thematic block must also be highlighted. Clues to the 17 across entries that are unchanged each contain a letter to be dropped to enable solving. In clue order these letters spell a thematic name.
A fun solve with neat surfaces and definitions. My favourites were 10ac, 13ac, 16ac, and 2dn. Thanks to Anto