Never knowingly undersolved
A fine start to our week in the Indy with a puzzle from Gila. An excellent example of an approachable, entertaining cryptic for a serious daily weekday paper. Even though you can’t solve … Read more >>
Indy regular Skinny fills our Sunday slot. Your scheduled blogger Kitty is on her holidays so I’m standing in today.
Wire provides this Saturday’s challenge.
A somewhat tricky Phiday challenge, or at least I thought so.
Serpent provides today’s challenge.
Quite unusually, Hoskins is filling the Wednesday this week. I found this puzzle to be of exactly the right level of difficulty for a mid-week puzzle, i.e. not too stiff a challenge but … Read more >>
Bluebird challenges Independent solvers today. I last blogged a puzzle by Bluebird when he produced a puzzle dedicated to the setter Klingsor who sadly died recently. I made steady progress … Read more >>
Knut is often very topical
Hypnos has a pleasing and tractable puzzle for us to enjoy over Sunday morning coffee. Abbreviations cd cryptic definition dd double definition cad clue as definition (xxxx)* anagram anagrind = anagram indicator [x] … Read more >>
A puzzle in memory of a wonderful man, which can be found here. When I solved 17a I was reminded of a recently departed friend. A little further in and it dawned … Read more >>
It’s Phi-day again…..
Rodriguez’s latest puzzle provides us with our daily cruciverbal challenge today. I found this to be quite a challenging and thoroughly enjoyable puzzle. I think that I have managed to solve and parse … Read more >>
We have an Eccles puzzle today in the Independent today. Eccles provides us with his usual assortment of deceptively simple clues. I particularly liked the clue for BEHAVED (25 across) … Read more >>
A welcome return for Dill, who hasn’t appeared in the Independent for a while.
I found this a fairly challenging puzzle with a few clues that needed quite a lot of crossing letters before I could solve them.