Never knowingly undersolved
Tees regularly produces crosswords that have attractions for beginners, while also catering for the more experienced solvers. This was a crossword with a good mix of clues, some with basic constructions, … Read more >>
My second Araucaria to blog in a row, and good entertainment again. I don’t think it’s giving anything away to say that many clues rely on a variety of different meanings and uses … Read more >>
Monday Prize Crossword/Feb 13 The last two Crux crosswords generated a spectacular total of zero comments. That’s perhaps disappointing for me, but even more for the setter who, in my opinion, is one … Read more >>
Prize puzzle from the Weekend FT of February 11, 2012 I found this to be a moderately challenging, interestingly offbeat and very clever puzzle by Mudd. There are many clues I think are … Read more >>
I have uploaded three new sets of photos to Flickr: The Cruciverbalists’ Convention at The Bridge House, Maida Vale, on 28 January: Bridge House, 28 January 2012 Part 1 of our celebrations of … Read more >>
No prizes for guessing the subject of the celebration in this puzzle. Happy 80th birthday to Roger Squires, also known in FT circles as Dante. This puzzle contains numerous references to Roger Squires’s … Read more >>
I’m sure you will all join me in wishing Mr Squires a very Happy Birthday. A splendid poetic tribute from Araucaria can be found here on the CCMB.
Without the dedication, this would have been a tough nut to crack.
As we expect, a smooth efficient job from Dac. Some of the clues are excellent and it is sad that these masterpieces which he produces week after week are here for a day and then almost completely forgotten. … Read more >>
Four clues have a misprint, and the rest have a redundant word. A jumble of the corrections to the misprints form a word that is thematically associated with eight unclued entries, and the … Read more >>
Thanks for all the interest in the next S&B do to be held in Todmorden. Unfortunately I have had to move it back a week due to venue problems and it will now … Read more >>
A straightforward, accessible puzzle, I think, thanks to Gurney. Definitions are underlined in the clues. Picture set at the bottom has an unidentified link with the crossword. Across 1 Calm and able to move … Read more >>
We wonder whether we are missing something here! An enjoyable, fairly tricky puzzle with a number of unusual words that you could parse from the cryptic part but needed checking with a dictionary. … Read more >>
Thanks to stiofain@3 last Tuesday, I went to the recommended site where all the clues to today’s puzzle can be downloaded alongside the answer. I then had a pro-forma where I could write … Read more >>
A puzzle in the familiar, pleasing, Quixote, style – aimed, I’d say, at being as easy by the general standards of Indy difficulty. Solving time, 17 mins which is v fast for me. … Read more >>