Never knowingly undersolved
Paul rounds off the week for the second time running, making this my third Paul blog in eight days. An interesting and entertaining puzzle, with some ingenious and amusing constructions. I had ticks … Read more >>
As usual, it is a Phi puzzle on a Friday Phi can often include a theme or message in his grids, but I don’t think there is one here today. … Read more >>
A slightly tricky challenge from Tees today.
Slormgorm makes an appearance in today’s FT.
A difficult solve with tricky parsing, and many favourites including 10ac, 13ac, 26ac, 4dn, 5dn, 8dn, 15dn. Thanks to Picaroon for the puzzle
“In eight clues a consecutive group of letters is to be removed, affecting the surface reading. These groups of letters can be rearranged as BIRDS, which are to be inserted into eight normally clued answers to form new words. Numbers in brackets refer to lengths of grid entries. Chambers Dictionary (2016) is recommended; one entry is in Collins.”
Umpire is a fairly new addition to the Indy setting team – this is our first blog of an Umpire puzzle.
A stiff challenge, as expected from this setter, with the NW corner holding me up the longest. Thanks to Vlad. Across 1 WAR BRIDE One becoming union member during dispute (3,5)Cryptic definition … Read more >>
A wonderful tribute from the FT today to a very talented setter.
Watch Your Step by Elpenor All clues are normal. Within each row or column, any occurrences of a certain letter in clued answers must be removed before entry into the grid; the removed … Read more >>
Kairos has provided today’s medium-difficulty puzzle, on what is traditionally theme day. This puzzle has been compiled on a grid that accommodates a very large number of clues, many of which give short … Read more >>
A fun puzzle from Fed this morning.
Some of the clues in today’s Peto puzzle took me a bit of thinking to unravel, but I believe these parsings work . . .
ARTEXLEN kicks things off this week…
Thank you to Carpathian. Definitions are underlined in the clues. Across 1. Soldier has location for drone? (8) PARASITE : PARA(short for “paratrooper”/soldier who parachutes into the combat zone) plus(has) SITE(a location/place at … Read more >>