Never knowingly undersolved
Mark Goodliffe – twelve times Times Crossword champion – is set to become a Countdown Octochamp on today’s episode of Countdown on Channel 4 at 2.10pm. https://wiki.apterous.org/Mark_Goodliffe
“Time flies when you’re having fun”, or so I’m lead to believe. It’s been a whole year since my first outing as a 225 blogger. And what a year it’s been! Thank you … Read more >>
A rare treat to see Maskarade on a weekday…
Welcome back to Raider, who doesn’t seem to have featured here for a while.
Moo is the setter of today’s FT puzzle.
“In accordance with the state of the unclued HATER before and after a cryptic HATER, three down clues need a pair of consecutive letters omitted and 12 across clues need a letter to be added before solving; these letters give a source. Solvers must change the HATER to the source of scorn, making a word of a personal message to solvers. Finally, a cryptic HATER should be applied to four down entries to reveal the message (four across entries to be highlighted). All entries are real words or phrases at every stage.”
A new setter today with a very impressive puzzle – we hope there are more in the pipeline.
Thanks to GUY for a great first puzzle to blog this year.
My second Paul in a row, and this time it took me a while to start making any headway, but it all worked out in the end. Thanks to Paul and Happy New … Read more >>
Any Inquisitor published on 23rd December will be likely to have a theme …. We had a fairly standard length preamble this week which told us that “A letter, wherever … Read more >>
A new Guardian setter?
Filbert is occupying the first Tuesday slot of 2024, with a puzzle that has provided me with a lot to get my teeth into. Tuesday is theme day, and many of the clues … Read more >>
Over the holiday period I have been overwhelmed trying to keep up with solving the blowout of special, extra, and jumbo crosswords, and here today we have a new Bobcat puzzle with some very inventive twists and turns . . .
MUDD kicks off the new year…