Never knowingly undersolved
It’s always good to see Qaos’ name on a puzzle that I’m blogging and particularly when it’s a Prize – although it has been mentioned several times recently that it is, apparently, the … Read more >>
Puzzle from the Weekend FT of September 2, 2023
A devilish challenge from BUCCANEER!
Thank you to Brendan, partly for reminding (in case you’ve forgotten) or pointing to (in case you don’t know) this. Definitions are underlined in the clues. Across 9. Finished with a player on one … Read more >>
Phiday is here again.
Four clues with four or more consecutive letters to be removed which can then be used to identify who, where and when in conjunction with the extra letter instruction in the other clues. … Read more >>
This felt like a ‘softer’ Filbert today without the various obscure synonyms which we normally expect from this setter. For that reason, we found this one more enjoyable.
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The puzzle may be found at https://www.theguardian.com/crosswords/cryptic/29169.
Pangakupu provides the mid-week challenge this morning. Once again, it took a while to tune in to the wavelength but it was a satisfying puzzle to finish. There are some ingenious and interesting … Read more >>
Eccles has provided our mid-week cruciverbal entertainment this week. I found this to be a medium-difficulty puzzle through which I made steady progress, faltering only towards the end in the SW quadrant of … Read more >>
Thanks to Julius for this morning’s puzzle.
After what has been a pretty wild summer with the young guns on the Inquisitor scene showing off their talents, Kruger demonstrates that there’s life in the old-timers yet. The preamble is what … Read more >>
A nice puzzle with some tricky constructions. My favourites were 8ac, 24/2, 6dn, 7dn, 13dn, and 22dn. Thanks to Pasquale
Methuselah is a setter who first appeared in 2021. Puzzles from Methuselah have appeared every month or 6 weeks approximately since then Clearly we have a biblical theme today with … Read more >>