Never knowingly undersolved
Eccles is occupying his familiar Wednesday slot this week. As with my experience of many other Eccles puzzles, this crossword combined a good few easy clues as starters but more than enough teasers … Read more >>
Thanks to Basilisk for a very enjoyable challenge.
Holy Hole in a Donut! Solvers must highlight a traveller in the completed grid. Clues to two places where he arrived eventfully lack a definition, as do those to his location three days … Read more >>
Clever clues and nice surfaces – my favourites were 9ac, 11ac, 17ac, and 19dn. Thanks to Imogen for the puzzle.
I find Knut’s puzzles entertaining and was pleased to see I was blogging one today. There’s a lot going on in the wordplay for many of today’s clues which is … Read more >>
While not very hard, this offering from Peto is not for the novice, either, . . .
Firstly, apologies for posting the wrong blog this morning. I use the Drury's website to do the puzzle but, unfortunately if you open an Indy puzzle in advance of the date there and it hasn't yet been uploaded, rather than tell you it's not there it just shows you an old puzzle. Normally, I check that it's the right puzzle but on this occasion I forgot and just dived in.
Thankfully, the correct puzzle wasn't too difficult and I could knock it off fairly quickly. That's not to say it was a bad puzzle – there were loads of good clues.
We haven’t had a Brendan puzzle since early June, so it was a pleasant surprise to see his name on this one. I started off thinking it was going to be a write-in, … Read more >>
SLORMGORM kicks off the week…
It’s the last Sunday of the month, so here’s the regular puzzle based on topical events – I nearly missed this one as it hasn’t yet appeared in the FT app, but it is available to solve online or download and print from ft.com/crossword as usual.
The piratical one is good at this Quiptic stuff, isn’t he? I judged that this was nicely pitched and carefully clued; but as always, what the beginners and improving solvers thought is much … Read more >>
I very much enjoyed solving and blogging this Sunday’s Independent puzzle by Stamp. Lots of great surface readings, all clearly clued and with one or two nice twists. I can get on with … Read more >>
Everyman blog time again – dog walked, pub located, beer & dog biscuits being consumed so here goes.
It’s Joyce again. As time was against us, I did not solve the puzzle before blogging so I cannot comment on how difficult or easy the puzzle was. There were a couple of words that I didn’t know – one of which I would have struggled to solve from the clue.
Click HERE for a pdf of the puzzle.