Never knowingly undersolved
Radian’s latest offering fills the Tuesday slot this week. I found this to be a thoroughly entertaining, medium-difficulty puzzle, which I was able to complete to my satisfaction unaided, needing just to check … Read more >>
An absorbing challenge from Vlad today – certainly one to get one’s teeth into and to get the brain in gear. There were enough devilish constructions, cleverly hidden definitions and witty surfaces to … Read more >>
A new setter to me, PABUS weighs in to Tuesdays with a themed puzzle.
The maze making Daedalus returns for our Monday entertainment, but will it fly?
A couple of odd clues, but otherwise a nice puzzle with 7dn and 17dn my favourites. Thanks, Rufus.
Thanks to Hectence for a Quiptic, that I found a bit on the easy side. Definitions are underlined in the clues. Across 1 Amount of leave worker’s taken in year (8) QUANTITY : QUIT(to … Read more >>
Who do we think the wastrel is? Maybot, BoJo, Trump itself? Too many to choose from Solving kicked off from the right had side but only resulted in about 10 in at the … Read more >>
With apologies for the delay, here is last week’s plain puzzle.
Please accept my apologies for being a little bit behind with this one. A full blog post will replace this once I get back from helping 75+ kids run around a park and get some coffee inside me.
Admin: I don’t know what has prevented Simon from returning. I have added an analysis of the clues but will leave it up to others to comment on them.
The puzzle may be found at https://www.theguardian.com/crosswords/everyman/3700.
This is the third Crucible puzzle on the theme of the evening’s event that I have blogged – and I’m certainly not complaining. Three years ago, Crucible clued LAST NIGHT OF THE PROMS … Read more >>
Having spent about a week wrestling with a Hob reprint in the ‘i’ a couple of weeks ago, being drawn to blog this one seemed a little daunting. Sure enough, I made a … Read more >>
“Twelve answers are entered with SOMETHING WRONG, namely, a misprint of one letter; wordplay in their clues leads to the misprinted form. The correct letters in clue order spell a hint to the theme. Solvers must draw four thematic items (not necessarily in the form described) including all the misprints and 24 other letters. Chambers Dictionary (2016) is recommended.
The usual utterly sound and satisfactory crossword from Phi. As always, while doing it I found some of the clues a bit tricky, yet afterwards the reason for this was not obvious.
Definitions in maroon, underlined.
Tough in places…