Never knowingly undersolved
Soup has appeared several times as a setter of the Genius puzzle, and he did a joint effort (a tribute to Araucaria) with Enigmatist last February, but I’m pretty sure this is his … Read more >>
An enjoyable solve and with a couple of gettable longer solutions helping me get started into the grid. Looked down a couple of paths for possible themes but haven’t found anything convincing. Favourite clues were 1ac, 10ac, 13ac, and 14ac. Thanks to Brummie.
Skylark, the third of four female setters in Ladies’ month (although this July has five Saturdays so there’s room for one more). Preamble: Symmetrical grid entries contain the endings of four lines … Read more >>
Thank you to Goliath. Definitions are underlined in the clues. Across 1. Note as clever? Not half! (6) QUAVER : QUA(as/being/in the capacity of, as in “President Trump qua president was no different … Read more >>
Italicus makes one of his relatively rare appearances today
A delightful Quiptic from Carpathian this morning, with crystal-clear cluing and a nice variety of devices for the less-experienced solver to wrestle with. Abbreviations cd cryptic definition dd double definition cad clue as … Read more >>
Wire provides today’s challenge, with a few tricky parsings but plenty of fun.
Great Monday puzzle from SLORMGORM.
After blogging a Paul on Friday, I wasn’t expecting another one today; I also wasn’t expecting something that was a long way from a “gentle Monday puzzle”. It was obvious that I wouldn’t … Read more >>
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The Everyman crossword is definitely improving. There were some nice clues here, and I only had a few very slight doubts in places, as you’ll see in the blog. More like the old Everyman: not all that difficult but sound and a good starting puzzle.
Took me a while to get into this one…
I found this a very enjoyable puzzle. Thank you Filbert.
Tees provides today’s puzzle.
This is my second Saturday Guardian blog and I’m struggling to find something to say in the preamble (nothing new there then!). I always enjoy Philistine’s puzzles (and those that he sets as … Read more >>