Never knowingly undersolved
Something for all levels of solvers in today’s outing. In fact, I suspect that this might be a good educational/confidence booster for relatively newbie solvers. A couple of gentle anagrams, a twinset of … Read more >>
Anax in rude health today with a few risque moments. Some lovely well written stuff but one I can’t quite figure out. Across 1 Typical – T Y + PIC + A L … Read more >>
An excellent puzzle from Crucible. (I’ve been lucky with two Crucibles in four weeks :)) There’s a mini theme in 3d, 7d, 20d and 21d, but if there’s more to it, I’ve missed that. … Read more >>
Monday Prize Crossword on 5 December 2010 Quite a pleasant surprise to see John Halpern aka Paul of the Guardian in this Monday slot. Like all week-opener in the FT, this one is … Read more >>
Prize puzzle from the Weekend FT of December 4 A decent, slightly challenging puzzle from Cinephile this time. My top clue is 25A (KIBOSH). I also like 7D (DECOR) although its wordplay is … Read more >>
In my view, a typical Dac puzzle: medium degree of difficulty, with sound clues that keep one guessing just long enough before resolving themselves in a perfectly satisfactory manner. I even learnt a … Read more >>
A festive theme from Cinephile today in a puzzle that had me scratching my head at times, not to get the answer but to unravel the wordplay. There is still one clue that … Read more >>
‘The best laid schemes … ‘ My plan was to stay up and solve this puzzle when it was published and provide an early blog, for once. Alas, I fell asleep at about … Read more >>
I’m stepping into the shoes of Peter B for this blog as he has work-related problems that prevent him from spending time on this activity. Being retired I don’t, thank goodness! Most of … Read more >>
I’m sure I’ve blogged a Mordred puzzle before, but I can’t find it anywhere using the search. Anyhow, I’ve certainly solved a few of them and often find them to be pretty tough. … Read more >>
Uncle Yap commented yesterday that he is currently in Sri Lanka and may not have access to an internet terminal, so a substitute blogger takes the Guardian spot today. We have still got snow on … Read more >>
A nice outing from Neo, with his usual twists and turns. I especially liked 5 and 22 across, 6 and 24 down. Across 1 TARIFF A R[upee] in TIFF (argument) 5 SACK RACE … Read more >>
Some pretty straightforward cluing from Mr. Putnam today – it was only my fuzziness after a poor night’s sleep that prevented me seeing most of them on the first run through. The anagrams … Read more >>
*=anag, []=dropped, <=reversed, hom=homophone, CD=cryptic def, DD=double def, sp=spoonerism A fairly gentle Monday morning offering from the crossword editor with some excellent anagrams. 7 caused me problems, mainly because I’d never heard of … Read more >>
Another straightforward Rufus, with a large helping of double definitions. A couple of clues (21ac and 23dn) have a word in the clue forming a major part of the answer, which can actually … Read more >>