Never knowingly undersolved
The usual experience with Phi: clues whose answer is not always obvious, yet after solving one wonders where the problem lay. There are no clues here where I am asking for help in the parsing (which is not to say that all will be perfectly correct. It seldom is).
Definitions underlined and in maroon.
As usual from Chifonie, not too difficult, nicely clued, and fun to solve. Favourite 19dn.
A tricky pangram from Julius this morning.
A fairly straightforward puzzle from Tees today – is Thursday no longer the ‘toughie’ day in the Indy? We didn’t notice it when solving, but we realised when writing up the blog … Read more >>
Monday Prize Crossword / May 15, 2017
One may think ‘another Monday, another Dante’ but I had a very different experience this time.
Prize puzzle from the Weekend FT of May 13, 2017
Another excellent themed puzzle. Thank you Gozo.
Dac has contributed another of his regular Wednesday puzzles today. Overall, I found this towards the easy end of the Dac spectrum, but no less enjoyable for that. The clue that took me … Read more >>
I found most of this puzzle to be relatively straightforward but was delayed a little by the last two or three entries, particularly 1dn which I’d never heard of before. It’s a pangram, but … Read more >>
The rubric, quite concise but complicated, read: Corrections to misprinted definitions in 14 clues give a hider and seeker. In some other clues wordplay leads to the answer with a letter omitted. Reading … Read more >>
If you like double definitions and obscure references, this one’s for you…
Morph has clearly flagged up a theme with all the references in italics in the clues. The theme though is completely irrelevant to all but one of the clues. I … Read more >>
A new setter to me this morning.
Moley on top form today – an excellent Quiptic. If you had to niggle, you might say a bit overloaded with anagrams, but beginners appreciate that, because it gives them a foothold in … Read more >>
Yet another new setter in the Indy, and in my opinion a good debut puzzle. One or two I have struggled to parse, but I’m sure help will be forthcoming. What did you … Read more >>