Independent

An excellent crossword. I’m wondering if I am ever again going to be scheduled a puzzle I can pick a few issues with.  This one has unquestionable clueing, and a super reveal, and … Read more >>

Phi eases us into the weekend with today’s puzzle.       I can’t see anything obscure in the entries today.  It was a component part of the wordplay for SYMBOL that struck … Read more >>

Radian has produced this Tuesday’s cruciverbal challenges, and on Tuesdays we always expect to see a theme. No need to go searching for today’s theme: once I had solved a handful of clues, … Read more >>

The puzzle is available here.   Hi everybody.  I enjoyed this puzzle, most of which went in smoothly until at 5d I had a mental block and impatiently used a wildcard search. The … Read more >>

A puzzle from Mev – a new setter for me to blog, but ‘they’ have previous…… published crosswords Good fun I liked 14ac – though I suspect you have to be of an … Read more >>

The puzzle is available here.   Hello from hot and sunny Dorset, where I am enjoying a holiday with friends (cat Willow and his humans) by the sea.  Bertandjoyce are unavailable again, but … Read more >>

Brunel has set today’s puzzle for our delectation. I can see from 15² that Brunel is a relatively new compiler, and it is definitely the first time that I have solved and blogged … Read more >>

Methuselah is the setter on this week’s Tuesday puzzle       Tuesday is usually theme day in the Independent and there was a clear theme today which Methuselah has developed very well … Read more >>