Never knowingly undersolved
A very quick solve for me today, with Rufus’s characteristic abundance of double and cryptic definitions; and, as far as I can see, one completely non-cryptic definition. Across … Read more >>
How did I end up on a Sunday night an hour from the usual midnight deadline scrubbling together a blog for a puzzle I solved, and made notes for(!), over a week ago. … Read more >>
Whilst I’d hesitate to ever use the word “easy” about a Beelzebub puzzle, this one certainly seemed to reside at the more tractable end of the spectrum. I managed to finish unaided in … Read more >>
Lorraine: Good morning to you all. Started off quite quickly this morning with 14, 18ac and 22dn being the first in the grid. Spotted 14ac straight away as it is one of my favourite … Read more >>
A plain Azed puzzle today, with no tricks or clue adjustments. I found this to be a fairly standard Azed. I am not 100% sure about the parsing of 3 … Read more >>
I remember that this didn’t pose too much of a problem, at the time of solving. Like this one, I’ve enjoyed Raich’s puzzles in the weekday Indy, and also liked and blogged his … Read more >>
It’s always a pleasure to blog an Oxymoron (or Schadenfreude!) puzzle, and this one was titled A Figure produced by Oxymoron—intriguing! Only eleven misprint clues this week, the balance being made up of … Read more >>
Phew! What a scorcher…and I don’t mean the actual summer heatwave we are enjoying (enduring?) here in the UK, I mean the tough mental workout this week, from a man at the top … Read more >>
For reasons that aren’t quite clear to me, we found this the most difficult prize crossword in a long time! The grid is certainly a tough one, with very few checked first letters, … Read more >>
A gentle workout Across 1 COLOSSAL huge LOSS (defeat) in COAL (fossil fuel) 5 SHARES parts HARE (animal) in SS (ship) 9 RUTHLESS having no pity (HUSTLERS)* 10 BANTAM … Read more >>
How time flies! It’s Phi-day again already. The grid will suit those solvers who like lots of checking letters. However, despite all of these we still had a bit of difficulty with a … Read more >>
The crossword may be found at http://www.guardian.co.uk/crosswords/cryptic/26004.
It’s the first day of the Lord’s Test, so I was glad this puzzle from Alberich didn’t delay me beyond the start of Test Match Special. A quick-ish solve but a very enjoyable … Read more >>
Lots of fun and games today – not all to do with solving / parsing the puzzle! Technical problems at the Guardian made providing the clues for the blog a little more problematic … Read more >>
It hadn’t fallen to me to blog a Morph puzzle for a good few months, so I attacked this morning’s offering with particular gusto. I seemed very much to be on Morph’s wavelength … Read more >>