Author: piquet

An elegant challenge today, no obscurities or anagrams of foreign words but a layman’s knowledge of particle physics would help.

I’m not supposed to put people off by saying “this was easy today” when others might find otherwise, but I thought this was the easiest Wednesday puzzle I’ve blogged for a long while.

I’m wondering if today’s setter was also last Wednesday’s, and maybe also on the TLS crossword team; we have at least three more references to matters literary here, although the wordplay is enough to lead you to the answers.

Not a difficult puzzle, but one of those that required a little literary knowledge and led me into the depths of Wikipedia to explore the stories or origins behind some of the answers.

I thought this was a brilliant crossword, full of interesting and not-too-repetitive wordplay and fair, but at times well-hidden, definitions.

One of those puzzles with 80% straightforward clues and a residual 20% that needed more thought, for me.

I started this apace, solving the top half in a few minutes and enjoying some of the quirky surfaces and well-hidden definitions. Then it became more tricky, although none the less entertaining…

A somewhat literary flavour to today’s challenge, which took around twenty minutes to solve and a few more to fully parse.

Nothing too alarming in this gentle offering, one insect I’d never heard of but the wordplay was clear enough.

I thought this was quite fun, not too demanding with with a few interesting words; twenty minutes saw it done and dusted. Did he ever find his dog, I wonder?