Never knowingly undersolved
Friday is Phi-day, of course, and Phi has duly served up his latest cruciverbal offering for us. I found that I worked my way through this one at a fairly steady pace before … Read more >>
I enjoyed this pleasant little puzzle from our old pal Orense.
Tees. makes his monthly appearance today with an entertaining puzzle. The puzzle is the first pangram I have blogged for sometime. I think I got the hint of a pangram … Read more >>
(Please click here for this same blog but with a picture quiz added. Please do NOT post hereinbelow any comment relating to the picture quiz. Thank you.) As I usually find with Paul, … Read more >>
(Please post comments on ONLY the picture quiz hereinbelow. To post comments on the crossword puzzle, please click here.) As I usually find with Paul, few pickings initially, but one can count on all … Read more >>
Monday Prize Crossword/Sep 22 Fine puzzle by Crux with only a couple of sighs in the CD department. Curiously enough, this crossword has exactly the same grid as the one that precedes it (Mudd’s prize puzzle, … Read more >>
Prize puzzle from the Weekend FT of September 20, 2014 As usual Mudd gives us a lot of double definitions in this puzzle including two with cryptic definitions that I rather like. My … Read more >>
A very nice puzzle from Gozo.
As always on Wednesdays, which don’t seem to be suffering the upheavals of the other days.
I sometimes wonder whether to feign ignorance of the parsing of some clues, so that people will respond and tell me how they work It’s the only way people will be prompted to post when it’s a Dac day, for everything is so tidy and uncontroversial, although in this one there’s a question about 5dn.
The puzzle may be found at http://www.theguardian.com/crosswords/cryptic/26379
The editor refers to the “IQ debutant Jago“, but, assuming there’s only one setter that goes by that name, he’s produced well over 20 puzzles in the last 40 years for The Listener … Read more >>
A welcome return appearance from Shed. I was lucky enough to blog his last puzzle, a couple of months ago, and said then that we don’t see enough of him. There’s lots of … Read more >>
We found it difficult to get started on the puzzle; it wasn’t until Joyce did her usual trick when she is stuck of looking at some of the last down clues that we … Read more >>
(Please click here for this same blog but with a picture quiz added. Please do NOT post hereinbelow any comment relating to the picture quiz. Thank you.) It’s been some time since I … Read more >>
(Please post comments on ONLY the picture quiz hereinbelow. To post comments on the crossword puzzle, please click here.) It’s been some time since I blogged Neo. Thanks for the renewed acquaintance. And … Read more >>