Never knowingly undersolved
Thank you to Kite. Definitions are underlined in the clues. Across 1. House Gale’s men (7) WINDSOR : WIND(a strong example of which is a gale)‘S + OR(abbrev. for “other ranks”, those who … Read more >>
Bluth provides our Thursday challenge.
NOTE: This puzzle was previously published as FT 17,464 and blogged by Teacow, and inadvertently republished and reblogged. See comments below, including one from the FT Crossword Editor.
A solid and seemingly straightforward puzzle today from Pedrock.
Please let me know if I missed anything.
“In this puzzle, solvers play HIDE AND SEEK, whereby the answer to each clue is concealed within it, as is the definition for another answer. The pattern linking definitions and answers is to be discovered. Clues are listed in conventional order, and solvers must add bars so that the completed grid shows 180° rotational symmetry. Chambers Dictionary (2016) is recommended; one answer is a prefix and one proper noun has a two-word definition.”
Yippee, it’s Eccles in the mid-week slot this week.
Thank you to Basilisk for this morning’s challenge.
The puzzle may be found at https://www.theguardian.com/crosswords/cryptic/29222.
Filbert has produced this Tuesday’s offering for our entertainment. I thoroughly enjoyed this puzzle, especially the ingenious ways in which the entries at 5,8 and 14 were combined in various clues. I think … Read more >>
Sixty Happy Years by Nimrod In an Only Connect Wall, 16 arbitrarily arranged words, phrases or names must be sorted into four groups of four, each with a different thematic link. Representing such … Read more >>
It’s unusual to see Paul on a Tuesday but I’m not complaining – I thoroughly enjoyed this puzzle, with a favourite earworm to accompany the solve and blog and to set me up … Read more >>
Half of this fairly flew in . . .
BOBCAT provides this morning's challenge…
I found this a slightly mixed bag, with a lot of nice clues but one or two where I struggled to justify the parsing. The breadth of Tees's vocabulary is, as ever, impressive.
Thank you to Hectence. Definitions are underlined in the clues. Across 7. Dietary supplement‘s almost essential minimum with beginner to cooking (7,1) VITAMIN C : “vital”(essential/absolutely necessary) minus its last letter(almost …) + … Read more >>
A fun solve with many neat surfaces – my favourites clues were 18ac, 22ac, 27ac, 28ac, and 5dn. Thanks to Vulcan