Never knowingly undersolved
When we saw that it is Punk today, we knew we were in for an enjoyable challenge – and we weren’t disappointed. We were slightly surprised that several of the clues – particularly the … Read more >>
Monday Prize Crossword/Dec 2 Solvers often say that Dante’s crosswords are full of cryptic and double definitions. Well, here is a clear example of that. While I am not a big fan of … Read more >>
An easier than usual puzzle from Monk, but no less enjoyable for that. The grid shape means there are many fewer clues than normal, so this led to a quick solve. There are also … Read more >>
This was one of those puzzles where I got almost nothing on my first pass through, but then everything suddenly started falling into place quite quickly. Plenty of good-quality clueing, with a clever … Read more >>
Once again, Dac is responsible for the Wednesday cruciverbal challenge this week. I found this an easier-than-average Dac solve, and made steady progress through the puzzle from start to finish. 2, 3 and … Read more >>
Prize puzzle from the Weekend FT of November 30, 2013 It falls to me to blog John Graham’s final puzzle. And what a typically Cinephilean crossword it it! Like many of his it … Read more >>
After the horrors of 1309, (still unfinished at the time of writing) we were hoping for something a little more simple this week, and so it turned out. A first read through on … Read more >>
Apart from a couple of tricky ones, quite a straightforward puzzle to solve and parse. Thanks to Sayang. Definitions are underlined in the clues. [[The pictures at the bottom have unidentified links to … Read more >>
Quixote’s harder brother, struggled a bit with this to be honest, some rare words and some of the wordplay has me less than convinced. Thanks Pasquale. Oh and for folks using the mobile … Read more >>
Tuesday’s Independent puzzles tend to be more difficult than most other days. I felt that Scorpion’s puzzle today was a good Tuesday puzzle Even though I realised fairly early on … Read more >>
Apart from the overly-creative use of abbreviations this was a very enjoyable puzzle. Most of the definitions given are from Chambers 12th Edition. Most of the standard abbreviations used in the wordplay are … Read more >>
My first time blogging a puzzle from eXternal. Tricky in places is the executive summary here, I think. Some inventive cluing; just one or two I didn’t like that much. Overall a very … Read more >>
The puzzle may be found at http://www.theguardian.com/crosswords/cryptic/26126. I do not think I am giving anything away in awarding a title to the puzzle, since ‘sense’ is plastered all over the clues.
This one took me longer than most recent Eye puzzles, but in retrospect it doesn’t look that much harder than usual. Despite a flying start with the long light, I only got 8 answers … Read more >>
Beelzebub was excellent company on the slow train back from Sheffield to London last Sunday. Not having acccess to the usual aids, combined with having time to kill, always seems to give me … Read more >>