Never knowingly undersolved
Serpent has been around for a year or two now, but I don’t think I have had the pleasure before. It seems that most people have found him on the hard side, but it looks as if I’ve had a fairly gentle introduction to him.
More &lits or near-&lits than I remember in a daily crossword. Clever of Serpent to get so many in.
A puzzle that took longer to blog than to solve…
The puzle may be found at https://www.theguardian.com/crosswords/cryptic/27164.
Monday Prize Crossword / Mar 27, 2017
After Gaff’s impressive Vera Lynn Experience we are back in Dante’s playing area.
Nothing to be afraid of, some really nice clues, some ordinary ones, all at a level that serves the beginner (and me, too) well.
Prize puzzle from the Weekend FT of March 25, 2017
A very enjoyable puzzle which I found easy to start but not so easy to complete. Thank you Chalmie.
A fairly typical Pasquale puzzle, meticulously clued, with some nice surfaces and one or two less familiar words, one of which took longer than it should have to parse. Thank you, Pasquale. Across … Read more >>
Kairos steps in for Dac this week – and we found this quite difficult to get to grips with. Having written up the blog we are now wondering why? Was it the … Read more >>
Ecological by Kruger Preamble: Just over 25 per cent of clues contain a redundant word that must be removed before solving. In clue order, the second or fifth letters of these words followed … Read more >>
Knut has produced this week’s Tuesday teaser, which I imagine had many of us reaching for our dictionaries! This was quite a workout and not just because I didn’t know most of the … Read more >>
Well, I don’t know what’s happened to today’s scheduled blogger. Had I been scheduled to cover this one (ie had I not been standing in at the last minute with the consequential time … Read more >>
For the second week running, a single (unfair?) clue detained me as long as the rest of the puzzle…
Found this pretty tricky, with a few going in without parsing for a while. Favourites were 1ac, 5ac, 18ac and 27ac – thanks, Vlad.
There appears to be a problem with the server at the moment. Apologies if you are experiencing long page loading times and/or HTTP500 errors. I am pursuing this issue with the hosting company. … Read more >>
My second Peter blog and a nice gentle start to the crosswording week