Never knowingly undersolved
As Conrad helpfully says, at comment 4, “Anyone wishing to do this online should use the PDF not the print version. Apart from saying 166 where it means 16 it is fine.” A … Read more >>
So, it’s the Don filling Dac’s last Wednesday of the month slot this time. We found this trickier than the average Quixote, with several head-scratching moments, particularly over the parsing of 1d. However, … Read more >>
Preamble: Nine (3 groups of three) answers are partly thematic. These are each clued with a single letter definition misprint which, when corrected, reveal a location for a possible sighting. Redundant single letters … Read more >>
This was a welcome puzzle today as I was running a little late with blogging. In each clue the wordplay and definitions fell in neatly so there wasn’t much to be doubtful about once I had the answers.
It is Tuesday today, the slot being occupied by Monk this week. It is a long time since it has fallen to me to blog a puzzle by Monk. I made steady, rather … Read more >>
Enjoyable and well-clued as ever from Chifonie – I particularly liked 23ac, as well as the misdirection in 2, 19 and 22dn.
(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.) I think this was of the … Read more >>
(Please post comments on ONLY the picture quiz hereinbelow. To post comments on the crossword puzzle, please click here.) I think this was of the right difficulty for a Quiptic, though 12 across … Read more >>
For some reason I found this harder going than usual for a Rufus, with the bottom half causing the most trouble. The grid doesn’t help: with no answers longer than nine letters it’s … Read more >>
Flipping heck, I only put my hand up to blog the Monday Indy on the grounds that it was ‘easy’. Easy this wasn’t. I got really stuck on two or three occasions, and … Read more >>
An interesting grid this week, with quite a few short entries and 90° rotational symmetry. I did feel the grid rendered the four quarters of the grid a little isolated, making one or … Read more >>
The puzzle may be found at http://www.theguardian.com/crosswords/everyman/3537.
I found this quite hard. Lots of “indirect” clues — where the wordplay requires solving for this. A good example is 33A. Across 1 Twangy instrument I am, bass, kept in box? GU(I’M,B)ARD … Read more >>
I think the kindest thing I can say about this puzzle is that it was not my favourite ever IoS crossword. But much more importantly, what did you think? And can someone explain … Read more >>
This Saturday’s puzzle seemed very difficult at first, though I kept coming back and nibbling away at it and finally managed to finish it unaided by Wednesday or Thursday. Well, I say unaided, … Read more >>