Never knowingly undersolved
A large 14×14 grid and lots of clues (50) to solve this week. And anagrams galore! The rubric read: All grid entries are real words or phrases. In each across clue, a jumbled … Read more >>
Tramp is as difficult and as fun as always…
A crossword today from Hoskins with a couple of names or geographical locations as well as some slightly unusual words among the entries. The appearance of names and unusual words is … Read more >>
Easy-peasy but far from boring. A very nice puzzle from Crux this morning.
This little baby took some considerable time to put to bed. I tried singing and cuddling, but there’s still one I don’t understand; so Nutmeg’s puzzle is still not quite asleep. … Read more >>
It’s fairly unusual to see Phi on a Monday, so this was a rare treat for me. After a run of quite difficult Monday puzzles, it was also nice to have something a little easier to get one’s teeth into. I thought this was very enjoyable and was able to keep going without long periods of getting stuck.
In retrospect a fairly typical Rufus, with lots of cryptic and double definitions, though it seemed a bit harder than usual when I was solving it. Thanks to Rufus] … Read more >>
It’s Private Eye. It’s Brummie. You get what you expect. A middlingly difficult puzzle. Half in after the first pass and nothing that didn’t submit after a bunch of crossing letters were in. … Read more >>
This seems to be becoming a regular occurrence, my blogging the Everyman. As usual, most of the puzzle was impeccable but this week I do have one quibble. I assume that 19ac is … Read more >>
An Azed plain competition puzzle is this week’s offering This puzzle was the usual mix of everyday words and obscure words with some Scottish words thrown in for good measure. … Read more >>
I simply cannot get on this setter’s wavelength, which must be frustrating for him because I seem to end up blogging the majority of his puzzles. It took me three goes to finish … Read more >>
Well…… this was a bit of a ‘tour de force’ by Hob. It wasn’t until Joyce came to write up the blog that Bert suddenly worked out the parsing for 24d and 19d. … Read more >>
This crossword from Puck was a nice Saturday challenge – mostly fairly straightforward with a tricky North East quadrant, we thought. As you expect from this setter there were some clever bits of … Read more >>
I took this puzzle on a golfing holiday to Portugal with the intention of tackling it in quiet moments by the pool. For one reason or another, I never got near the pool, … Read more >>
There will be a meeting for crossword setters and solvers at The George, Borough High Street, Southwark, London, SE1 1NH, coinciding with the annual Times Crossword Championship. The meeting will begin at 11:00 … Read more >>