Never knowingly undersolved
We are making a special video about the Azed crossword to be screened at the puzzle centenary event on 19th March, and we would love for you to be part of it.A grid by Dalibor for this Saturday.
This week’s 11 x 11 crossword from the Guardian intended to teach cryptic crosswords, found here
Trawling back through my (and others’) previous Brockwell blogs, they often seem to contain a theme…
As mc_rapper67 noted in his Xmas Special post, I have agreed to take over his slot blogging alternate Private Eye Cyclops puzzles. I’m a relative novice at solving crosswords and even more so blogging them, so please have empathy and use polite forms of address.
… and Miles’ third Listener crossword. Welcome back! The last two involved us in mathematics. Are we going there again?
Thank you to Serenos. Definitions are underlined in the clues.
A puzzle from Phi today in his usual Friday slot.
A fun challenge from XELA!
Mog is here to challenge and entertain us today.
A fine puzzle by Steerpike this morning.
The puzzle may be found at https://www.theguardian.com/crosswords/cryptic/29916.
“In each of 17 clues, there is a misprint in the wordplay part; correct letters, in clue order, spell out the first four words of the most POPULAR part of the theme. An extra letter must be removed from every other clue before solving, spelling out an instruction involving 21 cells in two straight lines. Chambers Dictionary (2016) is recommended.”
Thanks to IO for the challenge!
Eccles is back in his Wednesday slot this week.