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It’s Phiday/Friday today, and another set of mid-week puzzles comes to an end. I found this to be a medium-difficulty puzzle overall, although Phi almost had the last laugh in that I was … Read more >>

Monk has provided a puzzle to get our teeth into this Tuesday morning. As is customary, Monk gave me a real workout, and I really had to solve this puzzle in two sittings, … Read more >>

Eccles has provided this week’s Wednesday teaser. I found this to be a puzzle of two halves in that I sped through the top half of the grid before needing to work harder … Read more >>

Punk has provided today’s daily (over?)dose of cruciverbal entertainment. I found this to be a real challenge, of a puzzle, but one that I thoroughly enjoyed. Punk won the battle between solver and … Read more >>

Having occupied the Tuesday slot last week, Phi is back in his usual Friday slot this week. Despite there being the potential for a Nina around the perimeter of this puzzle, there doesn’t … Read more >>

Surprise, surprise: it is Tuesday today and yet we have Phi’s latest puzzle to contend with. I haven’t spotted any theme in this puzzle at all, let alone one that would suggest its … Read more >>

Filbert, a compiler whose work I have little experience of, has provided us with today’s cruciverbal challenge. I found this to be quite a tough crossword, both to complete and to parse to … Read more >>

Serpent has provided his latest puzzle for our stimulation this Thursday, on a grid that contains a higher-than-average number of lights. I found that I made steady progress through this puzzle, although at … Read more >>

In time-honoured fashion, Phi brings this latest string of mid-week puzzles to an end. I found this to be quite a challenge and struggled to complete the NE quadrant, not least because of … Read more >>

Hoskins has provided this week’s Tuesday puzzle. I found this to be a medium-difficulty puzzle, of which I completed about two thirds at my first attempt and the remaining third when I came … Read more >>

Silvanus has compiled today’s puzzle for our mid-week entertainment. He is a compiler whose crosswords I have only a modest amount of experience of solving and blogging. I thought that this was pitched … Read more >>

Serpent has unleashed his cruciverbal venom on us this Thursday, although I am more used to seeing his work on Tuesdays. I found this to be a thoroughly entertaining and very challenging puzzle, … Read more >>

True to form, Phi brings another string of mid-week puzzles to a close. I found this to be at the easier end of the Phi spectrum in terms of difficulty and solved it … Read more >>

Punk has provided this Tuesday’s cruciverbal challenge. I realised this morning that it has been a long time since it last fell to me to blog a crossword by Punk, so this honour … Read more >>

Tees has provided our second puzzle of 2019 and my first opportunity to blog. After some rather taxing Christmas puzzles, it was a relief to find Tees’ latest puzzle here today, to ease … Read more >>