Never knowingly undersolved
There are nine unclued entries. Eight of them represent eleven from a set and the ninth represents the last line of a quote formed by superfluous words in across clues. In the same … Read more >>
Thanks for the feedback. It seems that comments can be viewed on some iPhones but not others. By coincidence, another WPtouch update was released today (4th Aug) and I have just installed it (circa 1800 BST). I also altered one or two of the settings but these should not affect the display of comments.
Please let me know via a comment below if the problem has been resolved by this latest update. If it hasn’t I will pursue the matter further.
Raich gave me a good workout this morning, offering me enough easy clues to get started and enough of a challenge to keep me scratching my head for quite a while. Of all … Read more >>
Thanks Jason, I continue to enjoy all your puzzles to date. The easiest of the Big 3 today, but great cluing, clever surfaces and some spicy definitions. (Definitions are underlined in the clues) Across … Read more >>
What a beautiful morning to be enticed into the spider’s web after being seduced last week. I really felt entertained, challenged and educated this morning after this pleasant work-out. Well done and thank … Read more >>
A straightforward puzzle from Beale. A tricky bit of parsing with 23A, though its solution was readily apparent. Thanks Beale. (Definitions are underlined in the clues) Across 8 One very absorbed by erotic … Read more >>
A wealth of wit, a soupçon of smut, and a cracking cruciverbal Monday morning. Mr Halpern’s moseyed into town. After the trauma of finding that I had to blog Anax a few weeks … Read more >>
It’s Monday, it’s Rufus – say no more! Across 1 POINTLESS: double definition 6 COPE: OP [work] in CE [Church of England] 8 COLOSSUS: LOSS [no profit] in [is taken] CO [firm] … Read more >>
It was my privilege to blog Tramp’s first published puzzle (I think) which appeared in this series six months ago (Genius 91). Since then he has published non-prize cryptics in the Guardian (and … Read more >>
Sunday afternoon means a pint (or two!) and the IOS crossword. So here’s Glow-worm from last week. Can anyone help with the wordplay for 14a ? thanks Sil I see we have a … Read more >>
Pretty straightforward this week. Some very clever surface readings eg 28 and 31 across. ACROSS 1 Fools rolled back ceiling formerly blocking the light STARPROOF PRATS< ROOF 11 Old colleague mostly satisfied … Read more >>
Didn’t find this very easy. With at least one wordplay not completely decoded. Wasn’t helped by what appears to be a typo in 1D. Across 1 FAT,WA[y] 8 K,ABAB – rev(baba=cake) 13 RU(R,[t]ITANIA)N … Read more >>
A fairly straightforward puzzle from Everyman this week, with a profusion of anagrams and simple charades, and nothing too obscure save, perhaps, 2 down. Across 1 PASTEURISE *PARTS IE USE 6 SCAR Hidden … Read more >>
I haven’t looked at an EV for the best part of four months but when the scheduled blogger wrote to me to say that he had been unable to solve this one I … Read more >>
I started off at a canter with this one from the bottom right, but slowed to a stop after 30 mins with just over half in place. A re-start saw 1A fall … Read more >>