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Here I am with my last blog of 2018, and it is indeed a good long while since it has fallen to me to blog a puzzle by Knut. A nice medium-difficulty puzzle, … Read more >>

Phi has rounded off the latest batch of mid-week Indy puzzles, as we all brace ourselves for the bumper crop of cruciverbal treats that next week will bring. I found this to be … Read more >>

The Tuesday slot this week has been filled by Radian, whose work tends to be published on Tuesdays, in my experience. I found this to be an enjoyable solve, perfectly pitched in terms … Read more >>

Hoskins has provided our mid-week cruciverbal entertainment today. We got good value for money from Hoskins today in that the shorter entries – only 5-, 7- and 9-letter lights in this grid – … Read more >>

Tees has produced today’s puzzle, the second of his crosswords that I have enjoyed solving and blogging in a short space of time. I found this to be a fairly tough, but fair, … Read more >>

Phi’s latest submission brings our mid-week suite of puzzles to an end. I enjoyed this crossword and found it to be a medium-difficulty puzzle by Phi standards. True to form, I have been … Read more >>

Radian is once again occupying the Tuesday slot, which is where I am most used to encountering his work. Last time I blogged a Radian crossword, I missed an obvious ghost theme, so … Read more >>

Tees has supplied the Wednesday puzzle this week. The Wednesday slot for many years was the preserve of Dac, whose sad death was announced last week. Dac’s puzzles, with their tight clueing and … Read more >>

This is my first blog since the Indy clocked up its 10,000th cryptic crossword puzzle yesterday. I remember the very first Indy crosswords back in the eighties, when I was first discovering the … Read more >>

Phi has brought this latest suite of mid-week puzzles to an end. I found this to be towards the easier end of the Phi spectrum, not least on account of a grid that … Read more >>

Radian has produced today’s puzzle for our cruciverbal stimulation. I haven’t spotted any theme in this puzzle, which I found to offer a medium-difficulty, enjoyable solve. Please let me now if I have … Read more >>

Today’s mid-week entertainment has been supplied by Gila, one of the newer Indy compilers. I found this to be a rather tough puzzle and I needed to work really hard to finish it. … Read more >>

Today’s slot is occupied by Hoskins, whose work I am becoming increasingly familiar with. Of the crosswords set by Hoskins that I have solved to date, I would place this in the middle … Read more >>

It’s Phi-day today, with our regular Friday compiler bringing this week’s set of mid-week puzzles to an end. I found this to be a medium-difficulty puzzle, which I managed to solve and parse … Read more >>

Radian’s latest puzzle has been published today for our stimulation and entertainment. I notice that it uses a grid that was originally just a Telegraph grid, from what I can remember. Overall, I … Read more >>