Never knowingly undersolved
Solving time: 20:43 Another impressive ‘Araubetical’ with answers beginning with each letter of the alphabet. Most of the difficulty for me came from getting started on the grid rather than the clues per … Read more >>
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It seems another blogger has been prevented from posting for one reason or another so I’m afraid you will have to put up with me again. A lot of excellent clues today and … Read more >>
Good Phi puzzle as always, solving time 21 mins. * = anagram < = reversed ACROSS 1 MUS(t) I C Definition: notes 4 BAGUETTES (Bet a guest)* 9 S (A RACE) N Sn … Read more >>
I enjoyed this puzzle overall, except that I thought there was an overload of ‘select nth letter’ type of wordplay. The clues are a little wordy but have entertaining surfaces, notably 8A, 27A, … Read more >>
This one was mixed bag for me. I found some of it relatively tough for an Inquisitor. The tough parts were the down clues. With the wordplay providing two extra letters I found … Read more >>
Unlike the last EV I blogged, I made steady progress with this one. Having got ‘ignorance’ twice, but not the author, I might have finished sooner if I possessed an earlier edition of … Read more >>
This was a Cocker-knee rhyming slang special. I ‘ad t’scratch me old loaf a bit to solve this one. There were a good sprinkling of relatively easy clues for a saturday to get … Read more >>
A late solve, and an even later posting. But better late than never, as was the case last Thursday. After the first couple of across clues, I suspected that we were on for … Read more >>
I found this one a pretty stiff challenge, but that may simply be because when I see that the setter is Scorpion I tend to panic a little. The wordplay is complex, but … Read more >>
Quantum’s posthumous puzzles continue to appear, more than a year after his death. I found this one mostly pretty easy going, though I was slightly held up at the end with the two … Read more >>
Prize puzzle from the Weekend FT of June 6 A mighty strong puzzle from Cincinnus this time. I am awed by 26A and also like 5A and 13A. It took me some time … Read more >>
Solving time, 17 mins * = anagram < = reversed ACROSS 1 F (LE AB) AG able-bodied seaman 5 S (A BIN)E Ancient people in Italy 8 I BEG YOUR PARDON (brooder guy … Read more >>
Monday Prize Crossword on 8 June 2009 dd = double definition cd = cryptic definition rev = reversed or reversal ins = insertion cha = charade ha = hidden answer *(fodder) = anagram … Read more >>
I do enjoy Araucaria’s libertarianism and today was no exception. A mini theme revolving around ‘the House’ which, according to Chambers, can be “at Oxford, Christ Church (Aedes Christi), in London, the Stock … Read more >>