Never knowingly undersolved
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 >>
Nimrod never fails to impress us. His latest Inquisitor took us a while to finish but provided much enjoyable head-scratching until the puzzle eventually fell into place. We wondered what we would have … Read more >>
Today continues the lull, more or less, we’ve had so far this week – perhaps leading to a perfect storm tomorrow? Thanks to Chifonie for an enjoyable puzzle with trim and compact cluing. (By … Read more >>
Monday Prize Crossword/Mar 26 Always satisfying to blog a puzzle by Crux. On the easier side of the FT spectrum, but with enough little twists and turns to make this an enjoyable ride. … Read more >>
Prize puzzle from the Weekend FT of March 24, 2012 Here is another impressively brilliant puzzle from Cincinnus. Among a good number of exceptional clues I would pick out the fine &lit. of … Read more >>
PeeDee is busy today which has given me the opportunity to return, briefly, to what used to be my regular Wednesday FT slot. This took me longer than usual for an FT puzzle, … Read more >>
Many thanks to Andrew for standing in for me last week. A reasonably straightforward puzzle from Brummie, which I found quite enjoyable but the very clear definitions and / or enumeration in the … Read more >>
It’s Wednesday today, so it’s that time of the week that more often than not sees a Dac puzzle in the Indy. I made steady progress through this puzzle until I reached the … Read more >>