Never knowingly undersolved
Eccles today, so we can expect a well clued crossword, unlikely to have a theme or a message. This puzzle meets those expectations very well.. I think the only entry … Read more >>
Got off to a quick start then stalled towards the end. Favourites were 10ac, 22ac, 8dn, 16dn, 18dn, and 23dn. Thanks to Pasquale
Skylark is the fourth in the series of female setters following Nutmeg, Chalicea and Vismut in the past three weeks. The preamble was quite short this week and stated: Twenty-seven … Read more >>
A pleasant Tuesday morning excercise.
An excellent set of clues as usual from Radian today. It was not all that easy, but perfectly understandable in retrospect. Definitions in olive, underlined. Anagram indicators in italics. The theme (Radian has … Read more >>
Anto is providing our entertainment today: mostly straightforward with a few tricky moments. I made steady progress with this, then realised I’d got absolutely nothing in the SW corner. That held out for … Read more >>
Thanks Gila for an enjoyable challenge this morning. Gila is testing us with a wide range of cultural influences (art, literature and music); there are a few unusual words but the clues are … Read more >>
A gentle start to the week from VELIA… Good mix of clues here, nothing too challenging. Some lovely surfaces, 8d and 13d in particular. I found 10a a bit odd in that there … Read more >>
Even by “gentle Monday” standards I made short work of this, with a lot of write-ins. There seems to be a definite mistake in one clue, and I have a couple of other … Read more >>
A tougher crossword this time – least ways that’s the way I found it. It has some top-notch clues and it was worth re-reading them to do this blog. When I started solving … Read more >>
A pleasing puzzle from Everyman for our Sunday morning entertainment. Abbreviations cd cryptic definition dd double definition cad clue as definition (xxxx)* anagram anagrind = anagram indicator [x] letter(s) removed … Read more >>
Rather more compound anagrams than usual in this week’s plain Azed.
Thanks Skinny for an enjoyable puzzle. Definitions are underlined in the clues. Across 9 Rocking robin, huge one seen next door (9) NEIGHBOUR : Anagram of(Rocking) ROBIN, HUGE. 10 Crown represented in a … Read more >>
Tees teases us today….. …. but we’re afraid we didn’t really enjoy solving this puzzle – it didn’t raise any smiles and seemed to be a mixture of some very straightforward clues and … Read more >>
Hello all. Thanks to Eclogue, the STREET, or perhaps TESTER, of this puzzle. The preamble reads: In the completed grid for TRISECTOR, solvers must highlight a writer and the associated thematic pseudonym, … Read more >>