Never knowingly undersolved
Thank you to Falcon. Definitions are underlined in the clues. Across 9. Not living together, blokes before beginning to tenant flat (9) APARTMENT : APART(not living/being together) + MEN(blokes/chaps) plus(before) 1st letter of(beginning … Read more >>
A delightful Quiptic from Hectence, with nothing to frighten the horses, as it should be. I have given full explanations for those in the ‘beginner’ category, but please ask if there is something … Read more >>
A fairly straightforward and enjoyable Monday puzzle from Vigo.
I don’t think I’ve had the pleasure of blogging a Leonidas puzzle before this morning. Some lovely surfaces on neatly compiled clues.
A typical Monday puzzle from Vulcan.
Quite a challenge in places, with some nice clues. I found fault with a bit, as explained in the blog, but these were small criticisms and overall it was enjoyable.
All indicators (anagram, hidden, homophone, deletion, reversal etc) in italics. Definitions inderlined.
Azed has me “stumped”
A mostly amenable puzzle, but with a few tricky clues thrown in. Thank you Poins.
Like the last Indy I blogged, Raich’s 10,678, I started this at a canter in the top half, but ground to a halt further down – and was eventually flummoxed by one bit of fairly specialist GK, and a cunning wild cat…
Some more deviousness from Tramp to test us. Thank you Tramp.
An absolute blinder of a puzzle from WANDERER which had me completely outfoxed. Had to use the dictionary to get across the line and do believe some parsings could be improved.
Apologies for the late appearance of this clue analysis. The scheduled blogger emailed me this morning to say that he would “post the blog quite late tonight”. I assumed that this meant his … Read more >>
Thanks to Crucible. Definitions are underlined in the clues. Most of the solutions are associated with the answer to 16 across, ie. animals, plants, and other things existing in nature and not made … Read more >>
Unsurprisingly Phi provides the first Friday puzzle of February. I am defeated by the wordplay for one of the entries so look forward to being enlightened. At 12 down the entry is obviously … Read more >>
Maize sends us all over the place today with an enjoyable geographical theme.