Never knowingly undersolved
(Please post comments on ONLY the picture quiz hereinbelow. To post comments on the crossword puzzle, please click here.) This was by no means a write-in, requiring a slow and steady teasing out … Read more >>
A sparkling lesson from Orense in how to make a puzzle both easy-peasy and a joy to solve. I was left, if not entirely grumble-free, then certainly entertained.
Tees has given us an entertaining puzzle today. The theme although clear, was quite well disguised. None of the dogs were clued specifically as dogs, so it took a little … Read more >>
The puzzle may be found at http://www.theguardian.com/crosswords/cryptic/26236. It would hardly be a Gordius puzzle without some quibbles, but in my book they are minor this time out. Across 7. Time a pint’s … Read more >>
Monday Prize Crossword/Apr 7 A Dante crossword with exactly the same grid as the previous prize puzzle (by Crux). A mixture of elegance, nice finds, over-familiar devices and some incredibly easy anagrams. Many thanks to Dante … Read more >>
Prize puzzle from the Weekend FT of April 5, 2014 An okay puzzle with two clues that stood out for me: 1d (GARISHLY) and 19d (SQUANDER). And it has a couple of unusually … Read more >>
This is a tough puzzle with not many easy clues. I had to work hard all the way to the end.
I don’t think there will be so many ‘too easy’ protests today but there might be some complaints about unusual words. In fact, however, this puzzle turned out to be less frightening than … Read more >>
I used to blog quite often after midnight, when the crossword for the following day appeared on the website, but stopped doing so because I would become rather sleepy and tended to make silly mistakes. On Tuesday evening I had a long and ultimately fruitless game of chess, so was wide awake at midnight and decided to revert to old habits. There may be silly mistakes in the blog: certainly there were several answers where the parsing was not clear to me until I spent quite some time on them, and perhaps in the morning I would not have felt that this was on the tricky side for Dac.
All the usual remarks about Dac go without saying.
Definitions in italics.
Another long preamble from Lato … 11 entries are unnumbered – thematic or unclued, so about 20%. It’s all about X: thematics cryptically reveal the identity; unclued give a description, field of activity, … Read more >>
Arachne never disappoints. Hard to single out favourites, but my biggest smiles were from 29ac, 31ac and 8dn…
(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.) Quite a straightforward puzzle. Thanks to … Read more >>
(Please post comments on ONLY the picture quiz hereinbelow. To post comments on the crossword puzzle, please click here.) Quite a straightforward puzzle. Thanks to Phssthpok. Definitions are underlined in the clues. Across … Read more >>
It’s a while since we last blogged a Punk puzzle. We tend to prefer hidden themes rather than the overtly themed puzzle but there was still lots to enjoy. At one point we … Read more >>
Well, we know Rufus has his own style, but with (by my reckoning) 8 cryptic and 8 double definitions I think we can justifiably complain about a lack of clue variety in this … Read more >>