Never knowingly undersolved
Gosh, I found this hard going. Some of the parsings had me scratching my head for ages but I think I got them all in the end. I’ve not come across this compiler … Read more >>
A lovely surprise to see Orlando occupying the Quiptic slot this week.
Apologies for the slightly delayed appearance of this blog – I had made a start on it last Sunday and then completely forgot about it. Fairly average on the Azed difficulty scale, I … Read more >>
Good Sunday cryptic stuff from Hypnos once again. Last one in was 6 down, where the wordplay took me a moment to spot, but raised a smile once I did. Across 1 MAHREZ … Read more >>
The puzzle may be found at https://www.theguardian.com/crosswords/everyman/3625.
It’s time for my biannual Guardian Genius blog and this time Vlad is the setter The preamble stated "Fourteen solutions are derived from seven common word pairs, each having a … Read more >>
Scorpion has the honour(?) of being the first Saturday Crossword available to solve on the Independent online site in the same manner as the usual daily puzzles on the day it is published. … Read more >>
A cat themed puzzle this week. One that brings mangled presents from eight answers these must be removed before entry. Sounds typical of a cat! These then need to be listed under the … Read more >>
I spent a rather uneasy week after the S and B gathering at Macclesfield: when I told Maskarade that I would be blogging his Bank Holiday special, he chortled and told me with, … Read more >>
The last paper copy of the Independent – but not the last puzzle. And one of my favourite setters as the sun finally sets on the printed paper. If you don’t know already you … Read more >>
Well I can see that today is April Fool’s Day, a day on which there is not much point in reading the newspapers since all the writers will be vying with each other to find the most amusing non-story. …
I approached this puzzle rather nervously, in view of the date, as Imogen puzzles can be tricky at the best of times. As it turned out, there was no hidden trickery, unless it’s … Read more >>
Fun crossword today from Sleuth. Made rapid progress thanks to clean unambiguous cluing. Busy day up ahead so unfortunately dont have time to do justice in the preamble.
I’m not sure if I enjoyed solving this or not…
Lots of fun and not too tricky