Never knowingly undersolved
No Dac today I’m afraid, even though it isn’t the last Wednesday of the month. Christmas I suppose. But this is perfectly serviceable and fills the gap very satisfactorily. It seems that most of the parsings are straightforward and can be given in one short expression, and there doesn’t seem to me to be anything controversial. Some slightly unusual anagram indicators, perhaps.
Definitions underlined.
I invariably find the preamble to be the most difficult part of the blog to write and today is no exception. What can I say that hasn’t been said before? Good surfaces, good … Read more >>
Monday Prize Crossword / Dec 14, 2015
Enjoyable but very easy start to another FT week with lots of anagrams.
Prize puzzle from the Weekend FT of December 12, 2015
A carte blanche grid, so no bars and no numbers, but at least the clues have length indications and are in normal order. However, two entries are unclued, and there are a few … Read more >>
Knut seems to be trying out a few new tricks on us in this puzzle. There were a number of clues which we solved once we had some crossing letters but it took … 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.) A puzzle that’s trickier than the … Read more >>
(Please post comments on ONLY the picture quiz hereinbelow. To post comments on the crossword puzzle, please click here.) A puzzle that’s trickier than the usual start to the FT week, with some … Read more >>
The puzzle may be found at http://www.theguardian.com/crosswords/cryptic/26761.
A good Quiptic from Moley this morning, but a bit tough in places. Or perhaps that’s just me suffering brain fade after hearing Frosty the fricking Snowman in my local Sainsbury’s just too … Read more >>
() = abbreviation e.g. a(mpere) hom = homophone [] = letters removed An interesting puzzle from Hoskins which has a NINA (right and left side of puzzle), which you appear to have to … Read more >>
Enjoyed this, with 23ac and 15dn particular favourites. Thanks, Rufus.
A relatively gentle Cyclops puzzle, in preparation for the Christmas special. Good luck to Beermagnet for blogging that one. What more is there to say, except to wish everyone a great Christmas and … Read more >>
To me, at any rate a much harder than usual Everyman
A nice Sunday workout from Crosophile this week. I’d perhaps have got through it quicker had I not been so slow to spot the anagram in the long 16 across. 15 down also … Read more >>