Never knowingly undersolved
I didn’t know I was going to be blogging this puzzle until after I had finished it otherwise I would have made some notes at the time. Fortunately all the parsing is straightforward … Read more >>
Monday Prize Crossword/Feb 3 A fairly typical Dante puzzle, pleasant and smooth – nothing too taxing (apart from 1ac, perhaps – well, for me it was). Definitions are underlined wherever possible and/or appropriate. … Read more >>
Prize puzzle from the Weekend FT of February 1, 2014 I found this easier than most Bradman puzzles although it still presented a decent challenge. My choice clues are 9a (EXEMPLIFIED) and 26a … Read more >>
Very enjoyable and on the whole not too difficult, just a couple that I struggled with. Thank you Aardvark.
This was tough – I needed two sittings to finish it, and another to nail the parsing. Some lovely cluing – I especially liked 12ac, 2dn and 23dn.
Another Wednesday, another Dac and we’re not complaining. As RatkojaRiku said in the blog last week, it is always very difficult to pick a favourite with Dac’s puzzles. Last time we blogged a … Read more >>
Preamble: Each answer must have a letter removed, wherever it occurs, before entry in the grid. Definitions refer to the original answers; wordplay and letter-counts refer to the mutilated forms entered in the … Read more >>
As I often do, I started at the end and worked backwards through the clues which meant that I didn’t see the key 1ac until it was referenced in one of the other … Read more >>
I see it’s been corrected now, but when I went to the Guardian crossword page earlier this morning it said that today’s puzzle was by Philistine (though the puzzle itself had Chifonie’s name … Read more >>
It is the third time in recent months that I have blogged a Tuesday puzzle by Radian, but I am certainly not complaining! I suppose there simply had to be a puzzle during … Read more >>
Indy regulars will know that there were no Tees in last Thursday’s Nestor puzzle; but there was a good helping of Tees today. A delightful crossword, which I really enjoyed solving and blogging. … Read more >>
The crossword was there all along, but mislabelled! It is now correctly placed at http://www.theguardian.com/crosswords/quiptic/743. When I finally got to solve the puzzle, it was not the easiest of Quiptics, with quite a … Read more >>
It used to be fairly predictable that there would be a non-Rufus Monday every 4 or 5 weeks, but this one marks his ninth consecutive Monday. This one is very heavy on cryptic … Read more >>
A two-sitting solve this week, with the Chambers app getting a thorough workout towards the end. Lots of nice long anagrams to work through, which can always be quite satisfying. Of those, the … Read more >>
Not my forte. In fact I think this is the first time I’ve tried to solve a PD puzzle (so you really do have to ask yourself, why am I “the official blogger?”). … Read more >>