Never knowingly undersolved
Our last Nimrod blog was back in April. We needed help with one of the parsings then and surprise, surprise we need help again today. There were some long answers which on first … Read more >>
The Bank Holiday Prize puzzle, as is now traditional, comes from Maskarade.
Ifor offers us some MASS TRANSIT this week – we could be ‘going underground’, with the Jam; we could be ‘on the buses’ with Reg Varney; or we could be on the EV … Read more >>
A long day at work resulted in a delayed post – apologies for the same. Rushed through this, a moderately difficult challenge from the Don I thought. I was held up equal parts in the solving, as well as in the parsing, for the clues that did pose a challenge. Thanks Don, for a good workout.
I wondered who I was going to get today, now I know. Crucible has given us a themed puzzle commemorating an event that started 350 years ago today – the Great Fire of … Read more >>
Typically, it falls to Phi to round off another set of mid-week puzzles. I found this to be a puzzle of two halves, in that, if you drew a line from the top-left … Read more >>
Back in early May I published a post containing some feedback from Kathryn Friedlander and Philip Fine of Buckingham University regarding their cryptic crossword research which included a link to the published results. … Read more >>
The ‘Accommodation’ post can be found here.
A message from John Henderson:
Thank you for the excellent response to my “Show of Hands” posting. It’s time now to start putting together numbers for both parts of the event…
A suggestion from John Henderson:
A typical Peto puzzle.
(Please click here for this same blog but with a picture quiz added. Please do NOT post hereinbelow any comment relating to the picture quiz. Thank you.) Not that hard, as it turned … Read more >>
(Please post comments on ONLY the picture quiz hereinbelow. To post comments on the crossword puzzle, please click here.) Not that hard, as it turned out. Thanks to Pasquale. Definitions are underlined in … Read more >>
Morph supplies the Thursday puzzle this week. It’s good to see a crossword where the definitions are not just lifted straight out of the dictionary. I enjoyed this. There were … Read more >>
Monday Prize Crossword / Aug 22, 2016
Once again, a Dante puzzle that wasn’t a write-in and one that took me significantly longer than the Rufus of that day.
Prize puzzle from the Weekend FT of August 20, 2016