Never knowingly undersolved
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 >>
A Tuesday Teeser… well it’s theme day but I struggled to spot it for a while. Lots of NW corner clues seem to refer to Gods but this proved a wild goose chase… … Read more >>
One for the beginners today with generally straightforward wordplay and nothing particularly obscure. A very quick solve for me with 90% of the answers being entered during my first pass through the clues. … Read more >>
Didn’t quite enjoy this as much as I usually enjoy a Guardian puzzle. And much had to do with a most depressing theme of aging and its not-so-pleasant or pretty effects. No wonder … Read more >>
Typical good Quixote puzzle, today, entertaining, varied, not too difficult, solving time 24 mins * = anagram ACROSS 1 POLIC(e) Y (yard) 4 OB (old boy) UR (old city – of Sumer) in … Read more >>
A gentle start to the week from Rufus – enjoyable, witty and not too taxing on the brain first thing on a Monday morning. Hold mouse over clue number to see clue, click a solution to … Read more >>
Somewhat belatedly, I have uploaded photos of the Sloggers & Betters get-together in London on May 24: <a href=”http://www.flickr.com/photos/30631875@N03/?saved=1″>Sloggers & Betters</a> If I have mis-indentified anyone, please let me know.
I don’t rightly know what to make of this one. There were some good clues all right, but there were some doubtful definitions as well, in my opinion. And a Grauniad enumeration error. … Read more >>
This week we have an auspicious puzzle number of 1,111, and a helpfully Ninafied grid to match. At 1ac we have FOUR-EYES followed by, well, four Is, while along the bottom row we … Read more >>
I don’t think I’ve ever blogged a Poins before, which always makes for a slightly daunting solve. In the event, I seemed to manage a lot of this on the first pass through…and … Read more >>
Lorraine: Good morning to you all. This weeks offering took me quite some time to get going, but once I was up and running they started to come to me quickly. I was slightly … Read more >>
What one expects: only a handful of clues were solvable without a sometimes protracted wade through Chambers. Someone somewhere may know enough words to solve these things without dictionary help, but I certainly … Read more >>
NB. For some reason, this is not the puzzle posted on the Indy website today – which is an old Nimrod…The thematic preamble states: “Nine related answers lack a definition in the clues. … Read more >>
What a preamble?! An author and one of his works to be found in the grid. Another thematic phrase to be resolved from clashing entries in the grid. And there’s more… Wow. Educational…eventually…once the … Read more >>