Never knowingly undersolved
The pleasure and challenge of blogging an Anax had not fallen to me in a good long while, so I was excited this morning when I first set eyes on the grid. However, … Read more >>
Quite a gentle walk this morning through Gordius’s garden with a couple of unfamiliar words (but compensated by very gettable clueing). Hold cursor over clue number to read a clue. Across 1 BEAUFORT … Read more >>
A fairly typical Rufus mix of anagrams, double definitions and cryptic definitions – except that several of the cryptic definitions are rather less cryptic than usual. Across 1 WELL OFF: WELL [oil producer] … Read more >>
Punk and I keep bumping into one another on a Monday morning, which I don’t mind in the least, because his puzzles always raise a few laughs and smiles, which is rather what … Read more >>
This was one of the very much easier Quiptics. Thanks Orlando, for the double and cryptic definitions and anagrams, and for the absence of obscure words, whether dialect, slang, English or foreign. Definitions are … Read more >>
First of all, a Happy Easter to all, and a farewell, at least for the time being, as I find myself unable to live up to my compromises with 225, so have decided … Read more >>
I kept an open mind about this but the APRIL FOOL theme was unavoidable — i.e. once the grid was full there was no obvious way to resolve the clashes other than to … Read more >>
With the date being what it was, I was half-expecting un poisson d’avril theme, but it turned out not to be so. However, since it was also Palm Sunday, we have a little … Read more >>
A challenging yet entertaining Saturday puzzle from Bannsider this week, featuring some wonderfully misleading surfaces and inventive wordplay. I did wonder if there were going to be a Ronnie Barker theme, due to … Read more >>
Well, here’s a turn-up – a Gordius as a Prize crossword, especially after a week of pretty challenging puzzles. [Regular readers will understand that I was speechless when I saw it as my … Read more >>
As usual a good crossword from Phi. It was not the difficult one that some on this site feared when we had some easier ones early in the week, but it was made harder … Read more >>
POISSON D’AVRIL ACROSS 1/23d PICOT CO firm in PIT mine 5/22d INQILAB revolution IN QI life force LAB 10/21d LOOSEST most relaxed LOO heads= ship’s toilet SE ST 12/19d … Read more >>
I think I dodged a bullet here. Blogging the odd-numbered puzzles meant that I didn’t have to contend with the April Fools’ Day special, and instead drew this tractable but satisfying puzzle. That … Read more >>
Uncle Yap seems to have been hogging Philistine’s blogs recently, and I am happy to take this one from him. The crossword is marked by some quite unusual wordplays (wordsplay?).
It’s now two days in a row, but this time I didn’t know in advance that I was going to be standing-in, hence the delay in publishing this analysis. We were told in … Read more >>