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As usual, we enjoyed today’s puzzle from Knut.   The theme became apparent very early on with the very straightforward gateway clue at 15ac. Several of 15ac’s film titles appear in the entries … Read more >>

It’s great to see Dac back this Wednesday – all the usual smooth surfaces and straightforward clueing.   Are we showing our age (and Dac’s!) with 6d and 24ac? We don’t think that … Read more >>

A great Thursday challenge from Klingsor this week that we really enjoyed.   The NE corner went in fairly quickly and as soon as 10 across was solved we both thought – pangram? … Read more >>

Another week, another Friday, another offering from Phi.   We found this fairly straightforward apart from having to check 8 and 9 down. Joyce had vaguely heard of 8d and we both guessed … Read more >>

We thought this was a bit of a toughie today from Tyrus   The gateway clue at 16ac eluded us for some time, and even with some crossing letters we had to check … Read more >>

We really enjoyed this Crosophile offering today.   The theme became apparent early on, although at first we thought it was based on 1d-ic drinks until we realised that there are a lot … Read more >>

Silvanus taskes over the mid-week slot today – this is his third Indy puzzle and the first for us to blog.   We found it as enjoyable as the previous two offerings – … Read more >>

A fairly straightforward puzzle from Tees today – is Thursday no longer the ‘toughie’ day in the Indy?   We didn’t notice it when solving, but we realised when writing up the blog … Read more >>

Another Phi-day and another Phi, although we have to say that this didn’t feel like a ‘normal’ Phi although we cannot identify quite why.   We were somewhat puzzled by the wordplay in … Read more >>

A fun puzzle from Hoskins today – mostly fairly straightforward, but with a few that got us thinking.   We only realised that there was more to the puzzle when we had moreorless … Read more >>

This is our first blog of a Serpent puzzle. Although he has been around setting daily cryptics for the Independent for a while, we remember him more for the excellent Inquisitor puzzles that … Read more >>

Crosophile stands in for Dac this week.       It was only when we were compiling the blog that we realised that there is a theme here – given away (perhaps unnecessarily?) … Read more >>

A good challenge from Tees today, although there were one or two clues that we struggled with and some new words to check out. We had come across the Gods in 10ac before … Read more >>