Never knowingly undersolved
Prize puzzle from the Weekend FT of April 26, 2014 This puzzle was fun! Looking back on it and explaining the clues now, it also seems unusually tricky but I managed to complete … Read more >>
Just over a week to go before our get-together in Derby on Saturday 17th May. We have nearly 40 people coming, with around ten setters and a good number of new faces, who … Read more >>
An entertaining puzzle, though I think I’m not quite on Hamilton’s wavelength as I struggled to fully explain some of the clues. Thank you Hamilton.
There was a time when to see Nutmeg meant an easy ride in the Quiptic on a Monday and a few clues seem to be from that time.
As we have come to expect, another great puzzle from Dac with the usual smooth surfaces. We had never come across 18ac or 18d before, but the wordplay was clear enough and an … Read more >>
Preamble: Clues are presented in alphabetical order of their answers, word lengths referring to the space allocated to them. The operation of one of the two unclued entries (2 words) has had an … Read more >>
A puzzle celebrating the 6oth anniversary of an event that took place on 6 May. The key clues are 1 across and 17 across, 19 down. Besides the clues that reference 17, 19, … Read more >>
It hadn’t fallen to me to blog a Scorpion puzzle for quite some time, so I attacked this one with gusto. A quick glance through the clues reveals that there is a theme … Read more >>
The puzzle may be found at http://www.theguardian.com/crosswords/cryptic/26252. I found this a roller-coaster: the first pass produced very little, then once I had found an entry point at 25A, things proceeded smoothly until a … Read more >>
The familiar Monday Rufus mix of anagrams and double and cryptic definitions – perhaps rather more of the latter than usual. Thanks to him and a happy Bank Holiday to those who are … Read more >>
Perhaps it’s because it’s a bank holiday puzzle, perhaps I’m just being a bit lethargic, but I found this tricky. A couple of less common words (which is normal for Quixote); a good … Read more >>
I would say that this is probably an ideal Quiptic. Nothing too complicated or obscure but smooth surfaces and an enjoyable solve. I commend in particular the excellent 8dn. . Across 1 As … Read more >>
Another solve of two halves for me, almost literally. I made steady progress in the pub on Sunday evening, but returned home with pretty much exactly 50% of the grid filled, in particular … Read more >>
Relatively gentle for an Azed (i.e. I solved it in about an hour which is fast for me). A couple of uncharacteristic errors — incorrect enumeration at 31A and bad anagram fodder at … Read more >>
I thought this was a fine Hypnos puzzle in the expected IoS style – in other words, reasonably tractable. That said, I struggled in the SW corner for a good while, before 12dn … Read more >>