Never knowingly undersolved
Thank you to Anto. Definitions are underlined in the clues. Across 1. Gather heat is on the rise (5,2) ROUND UP : ROUND(a heat/one of the elimination stages in a competition leading up … Read more >>
A 13 x 11 grid this week.
Is it Groundhog Month? This time last year I had a Claw October Genius to blog, I went to the Times Champs and met Claw at the pub afterwards, and then met him again at the York get-together… Can you guess what happened this year?!
The puzzle may be found at https://www.theguardian.com/crosswords/everyman/4071.
Good morning fellow solvers
A themed grid from Methuselah, with working out the theme arguably more fiendish than the crossword itself. Never have I been more grateful to be part of the Indy blogging team, who have the pleasure of receiving these a bit in advance of publication!
This is the thirty-first 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. There is a summary of the tricks used in the first six months here. This puzzle can be found here.
I would normally take the Guardian puzzle with me on a train journey but last Saturday the journey was to the S and B at York and it was my blog and so … Read more >>
Cyclops has some depressingly doom-laden (if they come true) prophecies this fortnight…
Puzzle from the Weekend FT of October 27, 2024
Thank you to Qaos. Definitions are underlined in the clues. Across 9. Love games helping with theatre work (9) OPERATION : O(letter representing 0/love in tennis scores) + PE(abbrev. for “physical education”, a … Read more >>
Our regular Phiday morning wake-up call.
A fun puzzle from SOLOMON!
A regular alphabetical jigsaw with a title to find from a single letter from each column. Sounds interesting. As with any unnumbered puzzle the key is to solve enough clues to start grid … Read more >>
Bluth makes a welcome appearance today.
A toughie from Bobcat this morning.