Never knowingly undersolved
A puzzle by eXternal … but not Clue Two IV (yet). Preamble: Single letter clashes occur in six cells and each should be resolved in favour of a third letter to make … Read more >>
Thanks to Peto. Enjoyable, and with one answer that took (but shouldn’t have taken) me some time to parse satisfactorily. Definitions are underlined in the clues. Across 1 A consequence of abandoning Ulster (6) … Read more >>
Sheer delight to find an Arachne puzzle this morning. I don’t think it’s too difficult, so there’s something here for everyone to enjoy – as always, lots of sparkling 1ac, with ingenious, witty … Read more >>
Once again, we have to apologise to Serpent for another Bertandjoyce blog. We are certainly not complaining – hopefully Serpent won’t either. Our LOI was CARGO CULT which we had not … Read more >>
A sound Quiptic from Moley to start the week. Plenty of anagrams to get you going, all clearly clued and no obscurities. What a Quiptic should be, in my opinion. What did ‘beginners’ … Read more >>
A fine puzzle, slightly tough for a Monday with neatly misleading surfaces. Favourites were 11ac, 25ac, 28ac, 3dn, 19dn, and 24dn – thanks Nutmeg.
Congratulations to Kairos. That’s an L of an achievement. A pleasing and well-constructed puzzle for the Monday slot, and one which sees us celebrating Kairos’ fiftieth puzzle (for the Indy, … Read more >>
An enjoyable and straightforward Monday crossword. Thanks Armonie!
A slightly harder for me to get going Everyman.
I enjoyed this. A “straightforward” puzzle in the best sense: traditional but not dull. Thanks Peter.
I found this harder than usual. I made a decent start but then had to come back to the puzzle quite a few times to finally finish it off. Thank you Azed
I enjoyed this. All good, and I’ve not much else to say except thank you Philistine.
Drawing a Tyrus on blogging day can be a little daunting, though in this case I seemed to make steady progress from the start. Spotting the nina helped somewhat, of which more later. … Read more >>
Oh dear…this makes three of the last four EVs that I have failed to complete… Am I losing my touch? Should I be handing in my pencil and heading for the rocking chair, with a … Read more >>
Tricky and good fun, with lots of smiles and particular favourites 9ac, 18ac, 1dn, 2dn, and 21dn. Thanks to Picaroon.