Never knowingly undersolved
Vlad provides this morning’s challenge. The puzzle contains trenchant comment, in both clues and answers, on our current woeful situation, in Vlad’s inimitable style. There’s some very clever cluing and ingenious devices – … Read more >>
One of those puzzles that takes longer to poarse than to solve.
Prize puzzle from the Weekend FT of August 24, 2019
An excellent puzzle in the traditional style – good surface readings and precise wordplay. Thank you Jason.
An enjoyable puzzle with some very nice surfaces and cluing. Favourites were 14ac, 26ac, 3dn, 5dn, 16dn, and 20dn. Thanks to Nutmeg.
Eccles is now the regular Wednesday setter for Independent weekday puzzles. Eccles usually produces crosswords without gimmicks or messages and this is the case today (unless I have missed something) … Read more >>
Hard going but fair & fun, I thought, although not helped by an irritating mis-numeration.
Mynot is seen more regularly on Fifteensquared as a setter of Enigmatic Variations puzzles. This is his first Inquisitor since June 2010 The preamble was fairly short and told us … Read more >>
An enjoyable crossword from Wiglaf: nothing very controversial so far as I can see, and it was neither too easy nor impossibly difficult. Some good clues.
Definitions underlined, in maroon. Anagram indicators in italics.
This mostly slipped in very quickly, though there were a couple of parsings that took me a while.
ORENSE, for a change, kicks off the week…
Anto’s turn in the Quiptic slot this week.
Tees provides yet another witty puzzle for a Monday. I took a bit longer than usual to finish it, but I think that’s just my post-holiday brain; everything was clear (eventually) and fairly clued.
Vulcan starts the week off for us.
As we approach the season-ending finale of ‘Deal or No-Deal’, with BoJo as NoEd, Cyclops may or may not be channelling the zeitgeist here… During the recent HEATWAVE the CHERUB-ic Boris – ‘he … Read more >>