Never knowingly undersolved
Turbolegs is on holiday at the moment and when he emailed to say that he hadn’t been able to complete the puzzle and his blog before embarking on a long car journey I was … Read more >>
An enjoyable puzzle from Crucible, with lots of links to the key answer at 3,23,25, which luckily I got early on (working back from 24a). Just one homophonic quibble, but otherwise very soundly … Read more >>
Another Friday, another Phi-day. Soon after this blog is published we will be without internet access for some while. If there are errors or omissions we sincerely apologise and hopefully we will sort … Read more >>
Klingsor’s graces the crossword page of today’s Independent, as he often seems to do on a Thursday. I thoroughly enjoyed this puzzle, which I found easier than some of this compiler’s earlier crosswords … 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.) Thanks to Pasquale for an enjoyable puzzle. … Read more >>
(Please post comments on ONLY the picture quiz hereinbelow. To post comments on the crossword puzzle, please click here.) Thanks to Pasquale for an enjoyable puzzle. Definitions are underlined in the clues. Across … Read more >>
A simple crossword but vey fairly and clearly clued, with an American feel to some of the answers.
Monday Prize Crossword / Aug 3, 2015
Some may complain about all these cryptic definitions and the ample use of anagrams but Dante’s clue-writing is unique (whatever you think of it).
Prize puzzle from the Weekend FT of August 1, 2015
A somewhat racy puzzle from Loroso today. It is ages since I have had the pleasure of blogging Loroso, I hope he returns on another Wednesday soon. Thanks Loroso.
Most Wednesdays in the Independent are marked by a Dac crossword, so no surprise to find one today. As Dac crosswords go, I thought this was one of his less … Read more >>
The puzzle may be found at http://www.theguardian.com/crosswords/cryptic/26648.
This is Schadenfreude’s fifty-ninth puzzle in the Inquisitor series and it really made me think. The preamble told us that thirteen clues include an extra word which has only one … Read more >>
Tuesady toughie – one I couldn’t complete, so thanks to Eileen for parsing 16dn.
The Independent has changed things on its website and — for the time being at least, and probably for much longer — I have to use a more primitive method of blogging, which … Read more >>