Never knowingly undersolved
Vlad makes a welcome appearance in the mid-week slot – and he’s living up to his name. I found this quite a challenge in places – there were some helpful anagrams to give … Read more >>
Apologies to Eccles as we are back blogging your puzzle again. We are definitely not complaining – this was an absolute delight.
PeeDee is away today so it gives me a chance to return to what used to be my regular Wednesday FT slot. Had this been posted yesterday, I would have been able to … Read more >>
Serpent has set this week’s Tuesday crossword. It has fallen to me to blog quite a few of his puzzles in recent months. I found this puzzle, set on quite an unusual grid, … Read more >>
Partition by Eclogue A partition surrounds exactly one-third of the grid whose cells contain letters up to and including a certain letter alphabetically. Clues to the 24 solutions which do not cross … Read more >>
Some tricky cluing today leading to a slow start, but once I got going the grid was very helpful. Favourites were 9ac, 27ac, 6dn, 8dn, and 23dn. Thanks to Nutmeg for the fun puzzle.
A quick solve, but a technical DNF because I can’t parse 6 Down.
Thanks Pan for an enjoyable Quiptic. Definitions are underlined in the clues. Across 1 Public school boy boxing second European (8) ESTONIAN : ETONIAN(a boy studying at Eton, the English public school) containing(boxing) … Read more >>
A pleasant start to the week, courtesy of VELIA…
Tees is always good value for a Monday. Mostly straightforward, occasionally slightly contrived, but always witty.
A typical Vulcan today, with lots of cryptic definitions.
It is the Eye’s 1,500th issue – nearly 6 decades of campaigning and satirical journalism making some little headway against the forces of fake news which any review of recent history shows it … Read more >>
The puzzle can be found here. Hello! Well, what a surprise to see Nimrod on a Sunday. I suppose now that Phiday is anyday, anything can happen. No complaints from me: I … Read more >>
A plain puzzle with an unusual grid, a central horizontal line cutting it nearly in half.
The puzzle may be found at https://www.theguardian.com/crosswords/everyman/3796.