Never knowingly undersolved
Preamble: Crossing answers make 18 down appear a non-word – it must be replaced by the acronym given by the longer down answers (five words in total), while retaining real words in the … Read more >>
I made pretty quick work of this: there are quite a few clues that either had giveaway definitions or made their cryptic structure rather too obvious (a common feature of Brummie’s clues). I … Read more >>
It’s Tuesday today, with its typical pot pourri of compilers, and today it falls for me to do battle with Hob. I found solving and blogging this puzzle involved quite a lot of … Read more >>
Looks like my honeymoon period of blogging is over. This was a monumental struggle which had me scrambling all over Chambers and Wikipedia.
I’m not so sure about the ‘Qui….’ part of this puzzle but maybe that was due to the fact that I had slept longer than usual last night and perhaps my brain was … Read more >>
Still not back to normal for Quixote, but a rare Indy weekday appearance from Commoner.
Well it’s Monday, it’s Rufus. You’ve probably got a good idea what’s coming.
Well I never. Another unaided finish, though admittedly it took until Thursday and there was some very tentative guesswork involved. Not all of which I’ve 1 down-ly checked in Chambers, so it’s quite … Read more >>
A routine plain Azed this week, made a little harder if you were using the online version.
The puzzle may be found at http://www.theguardian.com/crosswords/everyman/3533. I got the impression in the last several weeks that Everyman was ratcheting up the difficulty level a notch; butI though this one by comparison a pleasant … Read more >>
Hypnos must be getting fed up with me blogging his IoS puzzles, since this is the third in a row that has come up on my shift. Generally I enjoyed it, and this … Read more >>
We enjoyed this challenging puzzle from Tyrus – some very good clues and plenty of crafty misdirection. Was Tyrus anticipating the outcome in Brazil when he wrote the clue for 15ac? 4/25! Let’s … Read more >>
There was a lot of fun to be had in this puzzle – a mixture of pretty straightforward clues [eg 12ac, 27ac, 1dn, 17dn], together with a number of anagrams to help things … Read more >>
A puzzle subject to be found and two of his works. Followed by a translation to be found based on extra letters in the wordplay – sounds like fun. And I was as … Read more >>
Phi’s usual sound and pleasant crossword. I found this slightly harder than usual for him, which explains the rather late posting. Also there were a few parsings which only became clear once I actually wrote up the blog.
All the loose ends round the outside suggest a Nina, but apparently not. No doubt there is something subtle and for me quite undiscoverable.
Definitions underlined. At least so far as I can see.