Never knowingly undersolved
It’s been one of those weekends when my monthly Prize blog coincided with the Friday / Monday blogging overlap, so you get me three days running (with an Imogen / Vulcan combination to … Read more >>
Wire gets us going for a new week
Puzzle from the Weekend FT of January 25, 2025
Thank you to Carpathian. Definitions are underlined in the clues.
The puzzle is available to solve online or download here.
It’s the last Sunday of the month (already?) which means it’s time once again for the FT’s cruciverbal round-up of topical events. Find it to solve online or download and print at ft.com/crossword, or via the FT smartphone app.
Carpathian is back her usual Quiptic spot after a long spell of setting Quick Cryptics. The crossword can be found here.
The puzzle may be found at https://www.theguardian.com/crosswords/everyman/4083.
A 13 x 11 grid this week, but no 13-letter words.
A poor show from Bluebird today …
This is the forty-third Guardian Quick Cryptic, a series of 11 x 11 crosswords designed to support beginners learning cryptic crosswords. The whole point of these crosswords is support and encouragement of new solvers, so special rules for these crosswords apply – see here – those rules include not posting solving times. This puzzle can be found here.
It seems that Imogen’s appearances in the Prize slot become less and less predictable. In my last Imogen Prize blog, I wrote, “For a while now, I’ve been used to prefacing my blogs … Read more >>
Perhaps it is misguided of us to expect a gentle puzzle for the first of the Listener year. This one promised a literary work and we were going to find ‘echoes’ in every … Read more >>
Here we are with the first puzzle of 2025. It’s also the first time in over 33 years that entries will go winging their way to an address not in St Albans. It’s … Read more >>
Pangakupu rounds off the week with an enjoyable challenge. A nice variety of clue types, with some ingenious constructions and witty surfaces and definitions. I had ticks for 11ac HIP REPLACMENT, 21ac SPRING … Read more >>