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I am back today feeling rather shame-faced having missed my slot last week – some of us clearly don’t always know what day of the week it is! It seems that this is … Read more >>

Silvanus is occupying the Friday slot this week, with Phi having appeared earlier in the week. I found this to be an enjoyable, medium-difficulty puzzle, an appropriate prelude to the cruciverbal challenges of … Read more >>

Serpent has set this week’s Tuesday crossword. It has fallen to me to blog quite a few of his puzzles in recent months. I found this puzzle, set on quite an unusual grid, … Read more >>

Gila has set our mid-week puzzle this time, on a less common grid with three 15-letter lights. I found this quite a teaser, and although I made swift progress through the top half, … Read more >>

Serpent has set this Thursday’s cruciverbal challenge. I found this to be a medium-difficulty puzzle, which it has taken quite some time to parse and blog. I am still not sure whether “argument” … Read more >>

My apologies for the late posting of the blog today, on what turns out to be a Punk-day rather than a Phi-day! I found this to be very much at the difficult end … Read more >>

It has been a long time since it has fallen to me to blog a puzzle by Morph, so I was pleased to see that today’s puzzle had been compiled by him. I … Read more >>

This Wednesday has afforded me my first opportunity to blog a puzzle by Loglady, the second time in as many weeks that I have blogged a compiler’s work for the first time. And … Read more >>

Windsurfer has provided this week’s Thursday solve. I think that this may be the first time that I have solved and blogged one of his puzzles in the Indy, although I think that … Read more >>

As is customary, Phi brings this latest set of mid-week puzzles to an end. No need to look for any ghost theme today, as we have a clearly identified theme, with a gateway … Read more >>

Wiglaf has set this week’s Tuesday challenge, whose theme quickly emerges from a first quick perusal of the clues. There is a general music theme today, as can be identified from many of … Read more >>

Gila has filled the Wednesday slot this week, with a puzzle that reminds me of the many puzzles by Dac which appeared in the same Wednesday slot in the past. The reason for … Read more >>

Serpent has set today’s crossword for our mid-week delectation. I found this a hard puzzle to make inroads into and had an almost empty grid for a good while. Once I got started, … Read more >>

Phi rounds off this week’s set of mid-week puzzles. I found this one to be at the harder end of the Phi and Indy spectrum. I struggled to unpick the wordplay of a … Read more >>

Serpent has certainly put me through my paces on this Tuesday morning. And I have to say that he has had the last laugh, since I don’t understand the wordplay at 23 or … Read more >>