Never knowingly undersolved
Tuesday’s Independent puzzle is set by Radian who is a regular in the Independent series. On Tuesdays, there is usually some theme or message involved in the puzzle. Today the … Read more >>
Filling the grid this morning wasn’t too much of a challenge, but some of the parsing took me longer than usual.
Monday morning fun from Hoskins, with a fair bit of his trademark smutty humour (you have been warned).
Monday, Monday…and it’s Pan who appears in this morning’s Guardian.
You always know you will get a sound, fair and no-bells-and-whistles Quiptic from Pasquale. I’d be specially recommending this one to those who really are newish to the art of cryptic solving. … Read more >>
The Observer crossword from Aug 29, 2021
The words “Genius puzzle” and “Vlad” are a scary combination for a blogger, but this one turned out to be “only” moderate-to-hard on the Genius scale. My way in to the theme was … Read more >>
A pleasing and tractable puzzle to go with my Sunday morning coffee. Abbreviations cd cryptic definition dd double definition cad clue as definition (xxxx)* anagram anagrind = anagram indicator [x] letter(s) removed … Read more >>
One of those puzzles…
Some relatively gentle fun-and-games from Tees this week…
This was a good challenge for the Bank Holiday weekend from Maskarade, with an impressively constructed grid The theme of the puzzle is RING CYCLE, referring to Wagner’s four opera cycle, Der Ring … Read more >>
Thanks to Nutmeg. Definitions are underlined in the clues. Across 1. Drive bishop away from bumpiest ground (7) IMPETUS : “b”(abbrev. for “bishop” in chess notation) deleted from(away from) anagram of(… ground) “bumpiest“. … Read more >>
It’s Phiday again
An absolute treat from a very rare Friday setter. I thought the puzzle was serious, but surely you are joking Basilisk.
Non-prize puzzle from the Weekend FT of August 21, 2021