Never knowingly undersolved
(Please post comments on ONLY the picture quiz hereinbelow. To post comments on the crossword puzzle, please click here.) This is the first Puck I am blogging, and fortunately, it’s one of his … Read more >>
Rather a stroll, this, from Wanderer, with a couple of unsatisfying little glitches.
Monday Prize Crossword/Mar 31 Another fine puzzle by Monday regular Crux. As one may know by now, I am not a fan of his cryptic definitions but all in all this was very … Read more >>
Prize puzzle from the Weekend FT of March 29, 2014 I found this a good puzzle with a few challenging clues. My favourites are 4a (TORTILLA), 16a (GEE-GEE), 6d (OPERATOR) and 26d (INCH). … Read more >>
Good stuff form Artexlen today. There was a mix of difficulty here, from the straightforward to the downright devious. Hopefully something for everyone. Thanks Artexlen.
It’s always a pleasure to blog a puzzle by Dac. The most difficult part however, is knowing what to say in the preamble! Perhaps we’ll just leave it at that apart from adding … Read more >>
The puzzle may be found at http://www.theguardian.com/crosswords/cryptic/26229. Lashings of envelopes, the odd oddity, but basically straightforward. Across 1. Careless chums must turn to run (8) SLAPDASH A charade of SLAP, a reversal … Read more >>
Preamble: The correct letters from misprinted definitions in 20 clues spell out a returning instruction. Solvers must change the contents of 18 cells, always revealing real words. Short and sweet! I got off … Read more >>
Another themed crossword from Gaff, but this time I was at a disadvantage, as one had to at least be following British politics during a certain period to get it. Thanks to my … Read more >>
It’s a while since we had a puzzle from Crucible*, one of my favourite setters, and I see that it’s well over a year since I blogged one of his, so I was … Read more >>
This Tuesday has brought my latest encounter with Radian, of which there have been many over the last six months or so. I found that I made fairly swift progress through this one, … Read more >>
Nice mostly gentle run out from Kairos today.
(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.) A standard Quiptic puzzle, with lots … Read more >>
(Please post comments on ONLY the picture quiz hereinbelow. To post comments on the crossword puzzle, please click here.) A standard Quiptic puzzle, with lots of anagrams to help the solver. Enjoyable. Thanks … Read more >>
Enjoyed this, but just wasn’t on the right wavelength for Rufus’s cryptic defs this week, so my last couple in took considerably longer after the rest was done. 27ac was my favourite.