Never knowingly undersolved
Radian is a fairly regular Tuesday setter in the Independent If it’s a Radian puzzle there is going to be a theme. I’ve blogged many Radians with a literary theme. … Read more >>
The puzzle may be found at https://www.theguardian.com/crosswords/cryptic/28137. The keystone clue is 17A RHINO, used in other clues in the slang sense of money. At times, the puzzle seemed to be an exercise in … Read more >>
Vulcan starts the week with a typical Monday medley of charades, anagrams and double and cryptic [some more so than others] definitions. There are a couple of old favourites at 27ac and 7dn, … Read more >>
Plenty to enjoy in Falcon’s crossword this morning.
Skinny made his Indy debut less than a year ago (I blogged it) and has become a regular since. He’s another good addition to the Indy stable: this was a witty, entertaining and … Read more >>
Cyclops is on a run of relatively easy crosswords lately. This one got finished within the half-hour. Top right quadrant complete and two-thirds filled in by the end of the first pass at … Read more >>
A delightful Quiptic from Carpathian, just right for new and improving solvers, in my opinion. To that end, I have tried to give full explanations of all the clues, but if you are … Read more >>
Another Tees puzzle for our Sunday entertainment. As always, I learnt something (and was entertained by a tractable and pleasing cryptic crossword). Abbreviations cd cryptic definition dd double definition cad clue … Read more >>
The Observer crossword from May 10, 2020 I don’t think there was much to frighten the horses in this Everyman crossword. But, yes, below there is a lot of discussion about the 24ac/21d … Read more >>
A very satisfying puzzle. It took me several sittings to complete which made it all the more enjoyable. Congratulations to Azed on reaching another milestone, and may there be more to come! Thank … Read more >>
Pleased to see a Morph puzzle this time. I haven’t blogged one for years and I always find them entertaining. Also, they don’t offer the fear of not finishing. 1 Across is a … Read more >>
We’d probably solved 10 clues before realising the “translation” from numbers to letter that was needed, even though in retrospect it should have been one of the first things we thought of! I … Read more >>
Two unclued entries to deduce. Extra words to remove and two messages to find from the second and second last letters in extra words with no clashes in the entries. Something else to … Read more >>
A solid challenge from WANDERER today. Thanks WANDERER.
It’s Paul to round off the weekday puzzles – a reasonably stiff challenge, with lots of great clues, which I thoroughly enjoyed. Many thanks, Paul. Definitions are underlined in the clues. Across 9 … Read more >>