Never knowingly undersolved
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.
Weekend puzzle from the FT of May13, 2023
I was surprised to see Paul in the Prize spot for the second week running – but we had had Picaroon and Philistine on the previous two days and so I perhaps should … Read more >>
Another Phiday puzzle for our amusement.
As is ever the case with Vlad, a tricky one today, not helped by the unfriendly grid, and more so by my initially entering two plausible but incorrect answers. Slightly bruised thanks to … Read more >>