Never knowingly undersolved
MynoT is a fairly tricky setter, but his puzzles are always worth the challenge. Here, like many of his recent EVs we had an alphabetical jigsaw, with sixteen answers requiring thematic modification before … Read more >>
Struggled to finish this, with several clues holding me up even with full crossers, and had to Google 17dn. Lots to enjoy – favourites were 1ac, 19ac, 22ac, 25ac and 18dn. Thanks, Vlad.
Not too sure about my parsing for 20dn.
Will there, won’t there be a theme to Phi’s offering this week? Actually yes, four of Will’s characters from Shakespeare’s play (in the nina across the bottom row) appear in the grid (in … Read more >>
A witty, funny and delightful challenge from WANDERER got my Friday off to a very pleasant start. Thanks Wanderer!!
As with yesterday’s Brendan in the Guardian, I downloaded this one on my way to bed. The difference was that I was able to solve several clues whilst it was printing out and … Read more >>
I had been tipped off that Tramp was today’s setter, so was looking forward to this one. Lots of good fun as usual, though without (as far as I can see) any particular … Read more >>
This Thursday morning has seen my first blogging encounter with Serpent, who appears to be a fairly new supplier of Indy daily cryptics. For me, this was an enjoyable puzzle pitched at exactly … Read more >>
Monday Prize Crossword / Oct 24, 2016
For the second week in a row [very unusual for the FT] a Dante puzzle.
And a friendly one it was.
Prize puzzle from the Weekend FT of October 22, 2016
I enjoyed this very much indeed. Thank you Gozo.
Well this one was certainly a challenge! I printed it out on my way to bed last night (or rather early this morning) and, as usual, had a quick run through the clues before … Read more >>
This is a puzzle with allusions common to many previous Tees puzzles. Tees likes his classics, history and mythology and the clues in today’s puzzle makes reference to characters or incidents … Read more >>
Eclogue is a fairly regular setter of Inquisitor puzzles. This is his eighth. I have blogged a couple of the previous one in January and November 2014. The preamble told … Read more >>
This crossword from Raich is to the usual high standard that we have come to expect from him. All the clues seem to me to be neat and uncontroversial with good surfaces, and the theme is something you don’t really need to know in order to solve the crossword, which is as it should be.
Raich always seems to appear on Tuesdays, which I find a little hard to understand. I wouldn’t say this was a doddle, but it was much easier fare than the sort of stuff we often get on a Tuesday, a day which sometimes competes with Thursday for the title of ‘most difficult day’.
Neo takes us to the polls today.