Never knowingly undersolved
This puzzle was a good example of Dac’s art. Virtually all the words and phrases were well known or could be deduced from the wordplay without too much difficulty. A … Read more >>
Was expecting to breeze through this after getting several of the longer clues almost immediately, but got held up in the top left corner…
This is Augeas’ third Inquisitor puzzle, but the first one that I have blogged. Holy Ghost blogged the previous two. We had a fairly short preamble this week – Seventeen … Read more >>
My goodness I was lucky as a blogger. Yesterday I never did the Independent crossword, being away, but by all accounts it was difficult. Today’s offering from Raich was much more the sort of … 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.) This was done in an unusual environment: … Read more >>
(Please post comments on ONLY the picture quiz hereinbelow. To post comments on the crossword puzzle, please click here.) This was done in an unfamiliar environment: no electricity (and that includes the Internet) … Read more >>
A nice mixture of clues from Qaos in this one, with some easy ones to get me going and others that took a bit of working out. I have quibbles about a couple … Read more >>
Today was going to be Writinghawk’s final appearance as he will be leaving the country shortly and going to a location with poor/no internet access. However, it seems that something has prevented him … Read more >>
Other people will probably disagree, but I found this a fairly fiendish Anax puzzle. The structure of the grid with all the down clues in the top-half having only their second letters (which … Read more >>
After several weeks of having to blog puzzles that had me wondering aloud whether I’d forgotten how to even solve them, this was a bit of a relief. This was my first unaided … Read more >>
Owing to a very busy week I’ve hardly had time to solve this puzzle – which I think was of above average difficulty, thanks to a high proportion of unfamiliar words – let … Read more >>
Another lovely Everyman, with plenty of anagrams to get us going, and some delightful but accessible clues all over the grid. Abbreviations cd cryptic definition dd double definition (xxxx)* anagram anagrind … Read more >>
Good stuff from Poins. Trickier than the previous IoS puzzle of his that I blogged.
We always look forward to solving and blogging an Anax, so it was with great anticipation that we sat down to tackle this one. Unfortunately, however, we felt it didn’t quite live up … Read more >>