Never knowingly undersolved
Puzzles set by Italicus have appeared a few times over the past three or four years but he/she is not one of the regular setters. There was a clear nautical … Read more >>
The puzzle may be found at https://www.theguardian.com/crosswords/cryptic/28735.
Sundays wouldn’t be the same without an Azed puzzle in the Observer This puzzle is a round number, 2600, which may explain the AZ occurrences in the clues and entries. … Read more >>
Seeing Anto’s name on a Quiptic never gives me a ‘Be still, my beating heart!’ moment. Your reaction may differ, and you can tell me so below. Abbreviations cd cryptic definition dd double … Read more >>
Happy Easter, everyone! I hope you have had / are having an enjoyable weekend (and aren’t 11 across 😉 ). I found this puzzle something of a mixed bag – mostly straightforward clues, … Read more >>
An entertaining puzzle with a few that were tricky to parse.
Thanks to Slormgorm for a breezy Easter Monday puzzle.
It’s Sunday so it’s Everyman – don’t know about you but I was somewhat underwhelmed.
Kairos is most often seen in the Independent on Sunday crossword slot, and I always enjoy his puzzles here. This one took a bit of finishing off, and there were one or two … Read more >>
Serpent has been providing puzzles for the Indy for many years and they appear on a Saturday about half the time. I am on a blogging schedule to cover the Saturday puzzle every … Read more >>
A fun but pretty straightforward prize puzzle from Crucible. I enjoyed this one – thanks, Crucible! Across 9. Make good magazine earlier (2,3,4) AT ONE TIME ATONE = “Make good” + TIME = … Read more >>
Paul rounds off the week with a fairly straightforward puzzle, written in characteristic style. I learned a couple of new expressions today but they were easy enough to solve and parse. Thanks to … Read more >>
It’s Phiday again and we’re back from our travels – many thanks to flashing for standing in for us while we were away.
A quick start before getting quite stuck on a few clues, especially in the North-East of the grid.
Nothing – interesting title. Some thematic adjustment to answers and highlight the nothing theme and strangely no clue numbers but not a jigsaw. Therein lieth a clue. The thematic device being to remove … Read more >>