Never knowingly undersolved
As expected we enjoyed this puzzle from Punk. There are quite a few proper nouns among the entries, but we don’t think there’s a connection between them. All good fun, with only … Read more >>
Good fun from Qaos today (despite a couple of niggles). His puzzles usually have a hidden theme of some kind: I can’t see anything in this one, but I may well have missed … Read more >>
Monday Prize Crossword / Feb 22, 2016
On a day I expected a Crux crossword, it was Falcon who made a quick re-appearance.
Something that is surely appreciated by those who loved the old-style Everyman.
Prize puzzle from the Weekend FT of February 20, 2016
A super puzzle, and not an easy one. Thank you Gozo.
A gentle saunter from Nutmeg today with nothing to frighten the horses (and nothing much for me to say about it). No obscure words, no convoluted wordplay, just a straightforward and pleasant solve. … Read more >>
It’s Wednesday morning and thus time for my monthly outing with Dac. Dac puzzles are always enjoyable, with tidy clues that can be parsed with absolute certainty, relying little on abstruse information or … Read more >>
Lacking an Inquisitor reprieve, this will be my penultimate blog. If your haven’t already done so, please sign the petition for the continuance of the Inquisitor which can be found HERE. This Schadenfreude … Read more >>
Typical Armonie fare
Knut.has a reputation for producing topical puzzles. This puzzle is topical, but I suspect it could have been published at any time over the next four months as the topic … Read more >>
The puzzle may be found at https://www.theguardian.com/crosswords/cryptic/26820.
I found this a difficult Quiptic, and when I’d finished solving and blogging it, I discovered why. Quiptics with a theme are about as rare as hens’ teeth, but there’s one here. It’s … Read more >>
A traditional Rufus medley, with perhaps more anagrams and fewer cryptic and double definitions than usual. There are a couple of places where the cluing seems rather awry but it’s perhaps me being … Read more >>
Another new setter before the demise of the print edition, I guess for a setter seeing your name on line doesn’t have the same cachet as seeing it in print where you’ve “made it”.
There were certainly a large number of mistakes in this puzzle. Gaffe, Lapse, Cock-up, Boob, Faux pas, Blunder and Goof, to name but a few. I couldn’t find any actual error though. Edit: … Read more >>