Never knowingly undersolved
Quite a tough crossword from Filbert today I thought — especially so for the usually quite gentle Wednesday — but well worth it. A mass of excellent clues and nothing that struck me as particularly questionable, apart from 15ac and 11dn, which are in any case only slight carps.
Definitions underlined in maroon. Anagram indicators in italics.
It’s a while since I blogged a puzzle from Crucible, who has long been one of my top favourites, so it was good to find this one on another sunny morning. The last … Read more >>
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Serpent is one of a bunch of Inquisitor setters that I like more often than not. Preamble: The wordplay in 32 clues generates an extra letter. Taken in clue order, these letters … Read more >>
A quick solve, followed by some head-scratching over several bits of parsing. I liked 1ac, 18ac, 1dn, 6dn, and especially 17dn. Thanks to Tramp for the puzzle.
It’s Tuesday so what are we looking for?
Thanks Crux for an enjoyable puzzle. Definitions are underlined in the clues. Across 1 A minor embarrassment for the French? (6,8) ENFANT TERRIBLE : Cryptic defn: French for a spoiled child/an embarrassing minor, … Read more >>
An enjoyable puzzle from Velia.
Pan never disappoints in the Quiptic slot. Here’s a tractable, carefully constructed cryptic for a lazy Bank Holiday morning (where I live, at least). Abbreviations cd cryptic definition dd double definition … Read more >>
A bank holiday in some parts of the UK, and a typically gentle puzzle from Chifonie to accompany it, slightly spoiled for me by some inaccuracies in the clueing, as noted below. Thanks … Read more >>
An excellent and enjoyable example of what the new Everyman can do.
A standard puzzle from Azed this week There aren’t many words beginning PC and we had one of the few at 1 across. Perhaps not surprisingly, that wasn’t my first … Read more >>
A nicely varied mix. Thank you Dill.
We hope we weren’t the only ones to find this very tough. At one point we were quite worried that we would not be able to provide a comprehensive blog. We ended up completing the bottom half first, hoping that this would open up the top half which only had 9ac, 10ac & 11ac written in.