Never knowingly undersolved
Friday is the beginning of my four week blogging cycle and not surprisingly it’s a Phi puzzle that gets me underway. We have a well signposted theme this week with … Read more >>
A rare Friday appearance from ARTEXLEN, thanks to whom for a good workout. One of those puzzles where the parsing took as much time as the solving did for many clues, if not longer.
There was a time when Tees always presented a stiff challenge, with various bits of arcane knowledge required. In recent crosswords I have found him much easier. That this is the result of improvement by me I somewhat doubt; it is more likely that Tees has decided to become a bit kinder.
But there has been no diminution of quality. Easy enough his crosswords may be nowadays, but they are still excellent: still tightly-produced clues and the occasional classical reference.
Definitions underlined in maroon. Anagram indicators in italics.
I always enjoy Shed’s puzzles, but this one was over very quickly, being distinctly on the easy side, with quite a few clues that wouldn’t be out of place in a Quiptic. Thanks … Read more >>
The puzzle can be found here.
Prize puzzle from the Weekend FT of February 24, 2018
I always enjoy Julius’s puzzles as they have a definite character. I never feel like I’m just churning out another FT post which can sometimes happen. As usual with Julius there are a couple of clues that I can’t fully explain – any thoughts welcome. Thank you Julius.
By some freak circumstance, we’ve had the pleasure of blogging Eccles’ last three puzzles. This one was up there with the others – all good fun – we particularly liked 26ac. Hoskins’ puzzle … Read more >>
Today’s puzzle can be solved online here.
Don’t Get Me Wrong by Opsimath Ignoring obstructive bars and replacing letters in barred-off and corner cells with the letters IN GRIM AUTHOR’S CV, three sides of the completed grid will reveal a … Read more >>
Radian has provided today’s cruciverbal entertainment, and indeed it is not unusual for his puzzles to appear on a Tuesday. I found this to be a medium-difficulty puzzle that revealed itself to me … Read more >>
A classic puzzle, not wickedly hard but with some delightful clueing.
The puzzle may be found at https://www.theguardian.com/crosswords/cryptic/27449.
Nowadays – in the post-Dante era – it’s a guess what we will get on a Monday.
This is my first blogging encounter with Sleuth who offered a sound crossword of medium difficulty.
An enjoyable one from a Quiptic regular. Thanks to Hectence. Definitions are underlined in the clues. Across 1 Comedian’s comeback about posh fellows gets laugh (6) GUFFAW : Reversal of(…’s comeback) WAG(a comedian) … Read more >>