Never knowingly undersolved
A quick search of fifteensquared shows that Hephaestos is a setter’s name that has not featured before. I wonder what kind of puzzle he/she will set? Well we usually find … Read more >>
Monday Prize Crossword/May 5 An enjoyable ride in the wonderous world of Crux crosswords. This time, however, there were a lot of similarities to the puzzles of that other Monday regular, Dante. Meaning: … Read more >>
Prize puzzle from the Weekend FT of April 3, 2014 This was an easy and relatively lacklustre Cincinnus. My top clue is 21 (BEACON) and I also like 14D (SNAKEBITE). ACROSS 1 I … Read more >>
What can be said that hasn’t already been said? The usual perfect construction, with a personal slight dislike of the word ‘some’ as a hidden indicator.
Definitions in italics.
The perfect lunchtime or coffee break crossword, very enjoyable.
The puzzle may be found at http://www.theguardian.com/crosswords/cryptic/26259. I thought this a splendid puzzle, with misdirection in all directions, and definitions that required much thought to see their appropriateness. Across 1. “Sun” follows this … Read more >>
A welcome return by Hypnos. Thematically, 32 clues have a superfluous letter in a jumbled word in the definition part; these letters spell out the theme, illustrated by five … Read more >>
(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.) An enjoyable straightforward puzzle normal for … Read more >>
(Please post comments on ONLY the picture quiz hereinbelow. To post comments on the crossword puzzle, please click here.) An enjoyable straightforward puzzle normal for a Tuesday. Thanks to Sayang. Definitions are underlined in … Read more >>
After the superb Indy puzzle from Morph yesterday, I was prepared for a bit of a let-down to solve and blog today, so I was even more than usually delighted to find Philistine’s … Read more >>
It’s Tuesday so we were expecting something slightly out of the ordinary. What’s more – it’s our first blog of an Eimi puzzle! When we saw that the puzzle was by Eimi … Read more >>
*=anagram [] = removed e.g. char[m]=char ()=abbreviation e.g. A(mpere)=a Hom. = homophone This was a very clever idea, with the across clues being cast as nonsense limericks, a form of verse popularized by … Read more >>
Nutmeg started setting for the Guardian Cryptic a while ago and her puzzles there have been well-received. But I’m glad she’s still doing the Quiptic, because she generally manages to set an accessible … Read more >>
Plenty of cryptic defs and anagrams from Rufus as usual, but only a few double defs. My favourites were 24ac and 2dn.
A puzzle with some imaginative clues — I think 4d gets my vote for best initially-deceptive wordplay, though that perhaps depends on what team you support. 19d also gets a mention. Across 7 … Read more >>