Never knowingly undersolved
Painstaking research shows that this is Flitwick’s third puzzle for the Indy or IoS, with a debut puzzle in March of this year, and this is the third time it has fallen to … Read more >>
The Gaurdian presents us with an elegant crossword from Orlando to strat the week.
As the preamble says, this is an anniversary puzzle. And with lots of other coverage of the same anniversary in the last week or so, it’s not hard to guess the subject.
For some reason I especially enjoyed this one. Thank you Azed.
Another enjoyable Sunday puzzle, thank you Poins.
An entertaining puzzle from Hoskins, with some nice surface reads and some good timing (or judicious editing?) regarding comings-and-goings at No 10 this week… My first solving note was a capitalised ‘HARSH!’ next … Read more >>
Another super puzzle from Paul. Thank you.
I am familiar with ‘The Ace of Hearts’ from his(?) devious circular Listener puzzles, but a search of this site shows a few recent EVs and IQs, several of which I think I … Read more >>
Today’s regular blogger is away (summer holiday season) so I’m stepping in. A tricky puzzle, with one or two unfamiliar elements in the wordplay, but all very clearly clued.
Vigo fills the Friday slot this week. We haven’t had a Phi on Friday now for nearly a month. 7 down is one of those homophone clues where I struggled … Read more >>
A thorough workout from REDSHANK this Friday morning. Not too many write-ins for me so had to diligently work on breaking down most of the clues. Thanks REDSHANK, for a solid challenge.
I was delighted to see that Klingsor was the setter for today, and he has not disappointed, with a crossword full of nice clues. Nothing controversial that I can see — it was just the right level of difficulty and he loses gracefully.
Definitions in maroon, underlined. Anagram indicators in italics.
Chalmie provides this morning’s head-scratcher in the FT.
The puzzle may be found at https://www.theguardian.com/crosswords/cryptic/27882.
Prize puzzle from the Weekend FT of July 13, 2019