Never knowingly undersolved
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 >>
A remarkable puzzle from Aardvark today . . .
I’m posting this one in a bit of a rush, I’m afraid. The deadline for entering the competition is the 7th, so I thought I had more time, but our esteemed site administrator … Read more >>
PETO kicks off this week…
Here’s a link to register: https://times-event.com/crossword-championship
Umpire is a new compiler to me and I did wonder if it was a made up name for the duration of the US Open tennis, but I can see that there have already been puzzles by this compiler that have been blogged on the site.
This was a write-in for me this morning. But probably not for the reason you think. It appeared on Friday as the online Cryptic puzzle because of a Grauniad balls-up and I solved … Read more >>
A bit trickier than usual for a Monday, I think, with a couple of unfamiliar words, though perhaps on the easier side for this setter. Thanks to Brummie. Brummie puzzles sometimes include a … Read more >>
It’s the return of the monthly geographically themed puzzle, this time brought to us by Gaff. Find it on the FT website to solve interactively or use the smartphone app.
Everyman doing what Everyman does
A tractable puzzle from one of the Indy‘s most prolific setters, with as always a good range of reference material and carefully composed clues throughout. Abbreviations cd cryptic definition dd double definition cad … Read more >>