Never knowingly undersolved
Alberich challenges and entertains, and altogether gives us a very satisfying puzzle. A trademark of this setter is the seamless joint between definition and wordplay, and you can relish many examples of it … Read more >>
A pretty typical Gordius puzzle, I think – plenty of nice clues, but with a few liberties that rather bothered me along the way. Across 1. SEVENTEEN EVENT = “What happens” in SEEN … Read more >>
Eimi takes the stage today, and some suspicious minds might look at the date and think Armistice Day. They’d be wrong as this appears to be a vanilla crossword, even if bits do … Read more >>
After three days of relatively undemanding puzzles, I wasn’t sure what to expect today but was very pleased to see Brendan’s name on this one. As usual, I had the momentary dread of … Read more >>
Solving time: about 30 mins, except for Googling to confirm the theme. This was an easy Inquisitor puzzle, with vocabulary that wasn’t too obscure. There were four themewords clued by wordplay only, each … Read more >>
A few too many double definitions and homophones for my taste today. Nothing particularly bad, but such a surfeit runs the risk of diluting the overall experience. So, to borrow a much-favoured and … Read more >>
Monday Prize Crossword on 1 November 2010 Thank you, Mr Colin Inman for rotating the setters. After a couple of years of Dante and Crux, Cincinnus (aka Orlando in The Guardian) is a … Read more >>
Prize puzzle from the Weekend FT of October 30 A very easy puzzle from Cinephile this time. Easy for me except that I had to look up the names of the main characters … Read more >>
Great stufff as ever from Dac, who can make even the simplest double definition clue effortlessly elegant. There were one or two trickier clues in here I thought, but every one of them … Read more >>
A very tough one this week, I found, with lots of new vocabulary. Blogging without Chambers in front of me, I suspect I may have wrongly hyphenated a couple here. *=anag, []=dropped, <=reversed, … Read more >>
A relatively gentle solve today though I am not 100% sure that I have the parsing of 17ac correct and so would welcome any other suggestions. Across 1 BONESHAKER ONE (single) SH (mum) … Read more >>
Mostly very straightforward clueing from Araucaria, with just a bit of deviousness at 27ac and a mini-theme linked to 5dn. Unusually, there are no full anagram clues at all, just small partial anagrams … Read more >>
An enjoyable, not too difficult puzzle today. There seems to be a word missing in 22 across. Laughed at 23 down, which is risque to American ears, at least. My favorite clue of … Read more >>
After a string of masterly and challenging puzzles, today I had a very light sentence, very much like chiffon, light and easy. Should be a breeze for most regulars here. ACROSS 1,5 LETTER … Read more >>
A pleasant — pretty easy even I thought — crossword where the four books appear three times as answers (so for a while I was puzzled by the repeated ‘one of four here’) … Read more >>