Never knowingly undersolved
It was a surprise – but by no means an unpleasant one – to find a Qaos puzzle this morning, only two weeks after the last one. I was enjoying solving the puzzle, … Read more >>
Eleutherian by Opsimath Clues are listed in alphabetical order of their solutions, to be entered in the grid jigsaw fashion, wherever they will go. Letters occupying cells 1-19 will then spell in … Read more >>
A fairly quick solve, with the longer clues filled in early, but quite a few trickier clues to work out and parse at the end. Favourites 1/6/12, 11ac, 15ac, 27ac, and 4dn. Thanks to Vlad
A rather theatrical Tuesday offering…
It’s a Vigo puzzle this Tuesday. The grid has 36 entries, 20 across and 16 down. That’s a few more than normal and often an indication that there is some … Read more >>
Apologies for the late blog, but as you will probably have discovered, this week’s Quiptic wasn’t uploaded to the Grauniad site till late morning. A fine puzzle from Matilda, with a couple of … Read more >>
Armonie starts off the week with a gentle challenge.
Last time I blogged a Vulcan puzzle I commented that ” I can’t summon up much enthusiasm for his puzzles, with their mostly very straightforward clues mixed with some rather weak cryptic definitions”, … Read more >>
I haven’t blogged a Hoskins puzzle for ages, so I was really pleased to bag this one. He’s a talented setter who has produced an excellent Indy offering here in the usual accessible … Read more >>
The Observer crossword from June 9, 2019
This Everyman puzzle took me an hour to finish, which was about the same amount of time that I spent on the Guardian’s Prize from Paul.
Perhaps, I wasn’t in the right mindset but my conclusion must be ‘this was quite hard’.
Raich sets less frequently for the Indy these days, so I haven’t had the pleasure of blogging one of his puzzles for a while. This was slightly unusual for an IoS offering, since … Read more >>
Another fine mix of interesting words and clues. Thank you Azed.
It’s been nearly two years since we last had the pleasant challenge of blogging a Monk puzzle
Across entries have a missing letter each time it occurs (indicated by wordplay) and 5 down clues need to be altered before entry to make new words. Well not quite – only the … Read more >>
A rushed post as we head off on holiday, so I hope I haven’t missed too much! The puzzle was a very enjoyable test, with a couple of trickier clues in the South … Read more >>