Never knowingly undersolved
Hoskins has the Sunday Independent puzzle for us, with the usual helping of ribaldry. Drugs and alcohol, as ever, but the addition this week of a collection of slang words for the membrum … Read more >>
There’s an unusual, (possibly unique), theme in this month’s Genius puzzle.
A plain puzzle from Azed this week. I got off to a reasonable start with this puzzle with a few of the early downs which led to me to SPLASH … Read more >>
So here I am wondering what to say in the first paragraph so I don’t anything give away about this puzzle on the homepage.
I will say …
This is the eighteenth 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. The puzzle can be found here.
A payoff awaits at the end of Soup’s tour-de-force series of innovative (unorthodox?!?) clues in this week’s Prize slot . . .
Puzzle from the Weekend FT of 27 July, 2024
Turbolegs is on holiday today, and has been unable to drag himself away from the pool long enough to do this morning’s FT, so I have stepped in to take his place. Thankfully, … Read more >>
Phi’s back to Phiday this week – normal order restored….. …except that we have not been able to include the completed grid as we usually do, possibly due to an update to … Read more >>
Philistine rounds off the week with a typically ingenious and witty puzzle. I had ticks for, among others – too many to list, 1,5 CURRENT ACCOUNT, a neat charade to start us off, … Read more >>
A slow solve with a lot of tricky clues and parsing – my favourites today were 25ac, 8dn, and 19dn. Thanks to Imogen.
Grecian has provided this Thursday’s cruciverbal workout, and a workout indeed it was, at least for me. I really enjoyed grappling with this puzzle, which was positively teeming with flair and ingenuity. I … Read more >>
A typical Zamora puzzle with a pangram. The puzzle took a lot less time to complete than it did to blog due to technical difficulties this morning, so apologies for the layout. Also, … Read more >>
Hello. A nice short preamble this week, with nothing confusing:
It’s not often that we see Goliath on a Wednesday, and not often that I find him as tricky as I did this morning.