Everyman No 3,376
A straightforward offering from Everyman this week, with a number of fairly obvious anagrams and charades, but none the less enjoyable for it, and with a couple new expressions – for me at … Read more >>
Never knowingly undersolved
A straightforward offering from Everyman this week, with a number of fairly obvious anagrams and charades, but none the less enjoyable for it, and with a couple new expressions – for me at … Read more >>
Having just finished spending far too long tearing my hair out on Sabre’s latest Listener, it was a pleasant relief to tackle Chalicea’s first EV puzzle. Correct letters of misprints spelt out a … Read more >>
What’s so special about the eleventh of June? Well it’s another Monk puzzle to blog. Some lovely clues again from Monk – 11ac, 28ac, 15ac, 7dn and 23dn are probably my top five, … Read more >>
An entertaining puzzle from Pasquale, in which we were told that six solutions were undefined in their clues, with five lying within the bounds of the sixth. I think non-UK residents might have … Read more >>
Mudd with a geographical bent in this fun crossword. I got the answers in a rush at first but ground to a halt in the bottom-left corner, only to realize that my answer … Read more >>
I’ve been looking forward to Tramp’s second Guardian cryptic, having blogged his début Fawlty Towers-themed puzzle, so I was very pleased to land this one, too. I didn’t detect a theme this time … Read more >>
I wasn’t on Phi’s wavelength as much today as I normally am, but I think that I got there in the end! There were more new words to me here (1A, 3, 13, … Read more >>
This was a nice challenge from Mordred. Plenty of well-hidden definitions and neat wordplay , and a number of what seem to be trademark &lits. A few less-common words here and there – … Read more >>
I found it very hard to get started on this one, but once I’d got a few answers in it yielded steadily, with the exception of a phrase I’d never heard of at … Read more >>
This was probably my quickest ever solve of one of Don’s puzzles in any of his incarnations. There was only one answer with which I was not familiar (3dn) but this was readily … Read more >>
Prize puzzle from the Weekend FT of June 4 Here is a fine Mudd only with a couple of clues that I am not completely sure about my reading of. My favourites are … Read more >>
A very good crossword from Gaff, which I enjoyed immensely. I started late, as I had to retrieve a sick child from school, and then after a long time was still staring a grid … Read more >>
As always a lovely crossword from Dac. I solved it online and didn’t time myself, but there seemed to be nothing of any great difficulty here: it all went in very smoothly, something … Read more >>
This time a title is in order, since tales are plastered all over the clues. Enjoyable, with some fine surfaces and a few convoluted wordplays. Across 1. Far from gayest sort of sodomite? … Read more >>
Extra letters in the wordplay of across clues indicate how answers to down clues are to be entered. Seven letters have to be highlighted in the completed grid. An 11×11 grid, and … Read more >>