Never knowingly undersolved
I really enjoyed this mid-week challenge from Pasquale, with a range of clever clues, including some excellent anagrams. As well as the anagrams at 27ac, 1dn and 8dn, I had ticks for 9ac … Read more >>
Bluth fills the mid-week Indy slot today.
Basilisk at his witty best.
Atrica has provided our latest Tuesday challenge. I found this quite a challenge, and after two attempts, I needed to cheat to get 26, which was an unfamiliar spelling to me; once 26 … Read more >>
Intersection by Vismut Clues are listed in the normal order. In 20 clues, single extra letters generated by wordplay (not to be entered) spell in clue order what is unconventional about a … Read more >>
A slow and steady solve with quite a few bits of tricky parsing. My favourites were 11ac, 21ac, 4dn, 12dn, and 23dn. Thanks to Fed for the puzzle
Quite the workout today from Slormgorm . . .
ARTEXLEN provides this Monday morning puzzle…
Xestobium (the scientific name for the Death Watch beetle) seems to have made a couple of previous appearances.
This was rather harder than usual for Vulcan, I thought, and I can’t fully parse 6d. No doubt help soon will be at hand. Thanks to Vulcan. Across 1 THAMES One can … Read more >>
A typically entertaining puzzle from a long-time favourite in this slot.
The puzzle is available here.
Now that the Observer has amended/clarified the rules for submitting Azed solutions we’re going back to publishing the blogs on the Sunday after the puzzle appears. After my first pass through the clues … Read more >>
The puzzle may be found at https://www.theguardian.com/crosswords/everyman/3995.
Serpent provides today’s challenge.