Never knowingly undersolved
Very much a puzzle of two halves for me, with the left side taking much longer than the right. Neatly clued as always, apart from one definitional inaccuracy. Thanks to Picaroon. … Read more >>
Prize puzzle from the Weekend FT of May 25, 2019
Not my best effort today – I stumbled to a completed grid but some of my solutions are not clearly explained. Help would be appreciated. Thank you Monk.
Poins is usually in the IoS, but there are occasional weekday appearances, and we are the happier for that. This was a sound and enjoyable crossword with some very good clues.
Definitions in maroon, underlined. Anagram indicators in italics.
A musical offering from Qaos.
Lato usually packs a lot of thematic material into his puzzles. Preamble: Fifteen thematic entries are evenly divided between two categories, spelt out by corrections to single letter definition misprints in thirteen … Read more >>
Thanks to Sayang. Definitions are underlined in the clues. Across 1, 5 Man, perhaps, with prize book (8,6) TREASURE ISLAND : ISLAND(an example of which/perhaps is the Isle of Man) placed after(with) TREASURE(something … Read more >>
A good Tuesday challenge from Wire today – this is his 7th Indy puzzle to date and the 2nd we have had the pleasure of blogging.
The puzzle may be found at https://www.theguardian.com/crosswords/cryptic/27838.
A mixed bag from CRUX this morning in that some clues were very easy and others quite tricky indeed!
I found this a tough puzzle to get started with. There was an interesting variety of clues and you often had to break the clue down to atomic level to work out the parsing.
It’s Vulcan’s turn to the start the week.
Pan can always be relied on to give us a Quiptic that will provide a sound but enjoyable challenge to an improving solver. This is one of those. Abbreviations cd … Read more >>
Everyman’s recent form continues: a little rough in places, but a witty and enjoyable solve.
Not a good start for this one. Firstly it appeared a day late and then the initial pdf upload had the clue for 35ac missing. With 40% solved during my first quick pass … Read more >>