Never knowingly undersolved
Tees in for Dac on Wednesday this week. There’s a little bit of retail therapy in the outside columns today with BARGAIN BASEMENT in column 1 and DEPARTMENT STORE in … Read more >>
The puzzle may be found at https://www.theguardian.com/crosswords/cryptic/27127.
Chalicea presented the Inquisitor challenge on 11th February The preamble was nice and short. It stated "The wordplay of every across clue leads to a letter not required in the … Read more >>
A good challenge from Knut today, as is appropriate on a Tuesday. Some nice clues. I don’t seem to have blogged one of Knut’s before, but would be happy to do more.
Definitions underlined and in maroon.
It’s six months since I blogged a Tramp puzzle and wrote, ‘It’s many months since I blogged a Tramp puzzle and so I was delighted to land this one’. Ditto today. Delight was … Read more >>
Bit of a Tuesday toughie from PHSSTHPOK today…
Anto’s turn in the Quiptic slot this week.
Well ViGo returns for our Monday workout, just about right for a Monday morning I thought.
Nice and mostly very straightforward – favourites 9ac, 11ac, 30ac, and 6dn. Thanks, Rufus.
A more UK-centric Cyclops this time round – the odd Trump/Clinton reference in the clues, but a host of old favourites in May, Boris, Gove, Nicola Sturgeon, the Speaker and the ‘shadow cabinet … Read more >>
It is clear from the various themes in his previous puzzles, and his comments on this site, where Hoskins interests lie and in this offering he seems to have included most, if not … Read more >>
Only one error (and that only the numbering of a clue) in a plain Azed this week.
Another uncontroversial, entry-level puzzle from Everyman. A bit one-dimensional, as I’ve said before; but one-dimensional is what you want when you’re a beginner or near-beginner, because that’s who the Everyman is aimed at. … Read more >>
An Azed competition puzzle this week – one of his ‘Right and Left’ offerings where each written clue is formed of two clues side by side without telling you which yields an answer in … Read more >>
A witty and educational puzzle from Shed with just the right degree of difficulty for a prize.