Never knowingly undersolved
Tuesday is one of the slots that rotate among a group of setters, and today it falls to Tyrus to occupy it. Last time I blogged a Tyrus I decidedly underperformed as a … Read more >>
Rufus back after his return to the Guinness book of records. The most prolific setter was dropped from the book for a while. Not as many CDs and DDs as we often get … Read more >>
A mixture of nice &lits and a few venerable old chestnuts (like 22 and 25) from Quixote. It was mostly on the easy side, although one or two like the superbly deceiving 16 … Read more >>
As advertised, an easy enough Quiptic, enjoyable, but finished before long. Thanks to Moley. Definitions are underlined in the clues. [[The pictures at the bottom have unidentified links to the puzzle. Please enclose … Read more >>
Definitely one from the hard end of the Azed scale. Starting this last Sunday morning, I failed to solve more than a smattering of clues, so I put it aside and didn’t get … Read more >>
The puzzle may be found at http://www.theguardian.com/crosswords/everyman/3493.
Can’t remember seeing a Nitsy puzzle for ages. Took me a while to get into it, mainly because I hadn’t done one of his for a long time and I always take a … Read more >>
An interesting themed puzzle from Scorpion, our only quibble being that the four 3-letter gateway clues were perhaps a little too easy? However, having solved them very quickly (and having checked that our … Read more >>
I love Brendan’s themed puzzles and so was very pleased to see that I had this one to blog. The solutions went in fairly easily, except the crucial 15ac, which was actually my … Read more >>
This week – extra letters in the wordplay spelling out a line form a verse and its source. Two further lines from the verse then must be applied to the completed grid to … Read more >>
The usual nice crossword from Phi, with plenty of the good clues you expect from him. Sorry this is a bit late, which it is for two reasons: although yesterday all was in … Read more >>
A crossword to ease one into the Saturday Prize Puzzle (and back into Crosswordland for me) from a setter who usually sets the Quiptic. Thanks to Nutmeg. (There are quite a number of proper names in … Read more >>
Highly recommended Across 1 START-UP establishing new business STAR (celeb) PUT< (set about) 5 GRENADE weapon (DANGER)* E[xplode] 9 RACER fast car ACE (great performer) in RR (posh car) … Read more >>
Terrific puzzle from the prince of the fallen angels Across 1 Endless bad beer, not weak for local soak SIPE SWIPER bad beer minus W (weak) and last letter … Read more >>
I can’t remember the last time a Thursday FT gave me so much trouble. I had a tremendous tussle with this excellent offering from Alberich, with the NW corner in particular putting up … Read more >>