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beermagnet An enjoyable offering from Cyclops this time. The clue surfaces were at their story-telling best, in the usual Private Eye style. The answers appeared readily and the whole thing was over at one … Read more >>
Crosophile gives us a puzzle that will entice solvers to finish. Some accessible clues to get started, no traps – apart from the one I fell into – and the rest of a … Read more >>
Solving was fast enough here with most clues answered on the first pass – then only 9 left. So this counts as at the easier end of the Eye crossword spectrum. The bottom right … Read more >>
Scorpion has the honour(?) of being the first Saturday Crossword available to solve on the Independent online site in the same manner as the usual daily puzzles on the day it is published. … Read more >>
A mid range Eye puzzle. Nothing terribly hard, nothing terribly easy, but some lovely smutty surface readings to the clues as usual. Across 1 SAVE Head of Tesco abandons staff cut back (4) … Read more >>
If my calculations are correct we have just passed the seventh anniversary of when Rusty* first graced the inside back page of the Indy. From the off he was recognised as one of … Read more >>
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 >>
We’re back to a relatively easy Eye crossword this time. Scrunch in the answers but this had far from crunchy clues. This was filled-in in short order with only a handful of answers … Read more >>
Anax. A name that spells a rough ride for a solver – this solver. I saw a tweet from him recently under #CrosswordPetHates : Day 1) 25 clues written. Day 2) Remaining 3 written. … Read more >>
It’s Christmas and like the strange man at the back of the night bus Cyclops shows us a worryingly large monster. As expected, there is a theme and this is spelt out in the preamble: … Read more >>
Another solid puzzle from Anax. This was not as hard as some I have seen from him which is just as well given how busy we all are at the moment. Only 6 answered … Read more >>
Not what I would call an outstanding puzzle though there are some excellent surface readings in the clues I did the wrong thing by solving this crossword a week ago soon after the mag arrived, … Read more >>
I was thankful when I saw a Nestor arrive for my turn blogging. Always a pleasure and there were some very nice surface readings in these clues I had 13 in after the “first … Read more >>
This puzzle was not a hard as some Eye grids of late, till the last few – notably those <50% checked lights. Particularly fine smut in clue for 15A Across 1 SKIMPY … Read more >>
This was a crossword of two halves After my “first pass” I had the entire left hand side complete but not the central down 5D and only a scattering in the right hand side. Indeed … Read more >>