Never knowingly undersolved
Another low- to medium-strength Azed, which didn’t keep me from my Easter eggs for too long, but provided good entertainment on the way. There seems to have been a rare lapse from strict … Read more >>
I’m well into my fifth year of blogging and I’ve never before landed an Araucaria Bank Holiday Prize puzzle, and so it was with a mixture of excitement and trepidation that I looked … Read more >>
An interesting mixture from Nimrod here – a plethora of long answers – six 15-letter entries – and a smidge-ette of a theme which, unless I missed something, didn’t seem to develop into anything … As it … Read more >>
The usual excellent crossword from Phi. I took a bit longer than usual to get started, but once afloat all was well and the typically sound clueing didn’t hold me back too much. … Read more >>
Highly recommended Across 1 MACAWS birds CAM< (river winding round) (WAS)* 4 CRABMEAT food (BAR CAME)* T (time) 9 NANTES French port SET NAN< (determined grandma back) 10 STALLION … Read more >>
Towards the easier end of the Beelzebub spectrum but no less enjoyable for that Across 1 Keelie got troubled when drunk GUTTERBLOOD (GOT TROUBLED)* 11 Lack of leaves in … Read more >>
The crossword may be found at http://www.guardian.co.uk/crosswords/cryptic/25914.
So two groups to identify – Four unclued and 6 clued without definition and a link between teh two groups to be highlighted. Sounds musical to me. The corrected misprints to 23 clues … Read more >>
My apologies for the late appearance of this post. I didn’t realise until about 3pm that the scheduled blogger hadn’t turned up. Fortunately this was a very quick solve (it took much longer … Read more >>
As with all Araucaria puzzles, I had to keep plugging away at it, and even then had to use the cheat button for the last one in. There is an unusual construction for … Read more >>
Bert looked at this puzzle and immediately solved two clues. He knew that Joyce would not be too pleased if he carried on looking and solved further answers as quickly! As it happened, … Read more >>
Monday Prize Crossword/Mar 25 Enjoyable crossword by Falcon which, for some reason, I found slightly harder than usual. Good variety of devices (but no cryptic definitions!) and – as always – care for the surface, … Read more >>
Prize puzzle from the Weekend FT of March 23, 2013 While this puzzle has a couple of excellent clues, I think it also has a couple of slightly weak ones. My favourites are … Read more >>
A really tough puzzle from Monk, as hard as you will find in any of the UK daily papers. I got there in the end. Many thanks Monk for yet another super mental workout. … Read more >>
It’s a while since we saw a Bonxie puzzle, so I was glad to see his name today. Some interesting cluing, including one [8dn] where I thought I was going to have to … Read more >>