Never knowingly undersolved
It is the crossword editor himself who has supplied today’s lexical challenge. And not long after I blogged a highly topical puzzle about the Panama papers scandal, today sees me writing up another … Read more >>
(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.) I made more headway with the … Read more >>
(Please post comments on ONLY the picture quiz hereinbelow. To post comments on the crossword puzzle, please click here.) I made more headway with the down clues than the across ones. Par for … Read more >>
A Bank Holiday special today.
The puzzle may be found at https://www.theguardian.com/crosswords/cryptic/26873
No particular sticking points today, just a smooth Sunday solve where everything adds up nicely. I particularly enjoyed the longish charade at 21 across, and there were a couple of nice &lits in … Read more >>
A plain Azed with one unusual feature: there were twice as many words of Hindustani origin as Scottish ones.
The puzzle may be found at https://www.theguardian.com/crosswords/everyman/3629.
The preamble to Genius 154 tells us: “Solutions to the clues are to be entered in one of two ways to be determined by the solver, which are confirmed by a message that … Read more >>
Apologies for the delay to today’s blog – a tussle with Tees. The lack of that extra week now the prize element is no longer with us is my lame excuse. Luckily for me … Read more >>
When I entered my blogging dates into my new 2016 diary and saw that I was down to blog the Prize puzzle on 23rd April – the Shakespeare Quatercentenary and St George’s Day … Read more >>
Six across clue answers need jumbling and adding a letter – six down clue answers need jumbling and losing a letter. The added and lost letters then give the main words of a … Read more >>
We need a new blogger to cover the Tuesday Financial Times (three weeks out of four). If you are interested in joining the Fifteensquared team please let me know via admin{at}fifteensquared{dot}net.
It’s not often that I get the opportunity to cover an Indy puzzle so this has been a pleasant change. Phi frequently has a ghost theme and I’m fairly sure that today is … Read more >>
The puzzle may be found at https://www.theguardian.com/crosswords/cryptic/26871.