Never knowingly undersolved
The puzzle is available here. Hello everybody. Thanks to Hypnos who provides a puzzle in traditional Indy on Sunday style. Wicked! (+ 1000) I liked the TRICK in 12a and found plenty … Read more >>
As January goes out with a storm and the world’s politicians act like pre-teenage children in the Ukraine, Rodriguez brings some light to the gloom and doom. Wine and cheese at number ten … Read more >>
The traditional Phiday challenge from one of our most prolific setters.
Gila sets the Thursday challenge this week.
Eccles is occupying his regular mid-week slot today. I found this to be an enjoyable puzzle, and sufficiently challenging for a Wednesday. In actual fact, I needed to cheat to find 19, which … Read more >>
We have a Radian puzzle on what is usually a theme day in the Independent crossword series. Clearly there is a theme in this puzzle with many entries associated with … Read more >>
Crosswords are sometimes written a few weeks before they are published and the themes can seem a little out-of-date by the time they appear.
Tees has produced the Sunday Indy crossword for us this week, but I’m afraid that my blog of his puzzle is a terse one. This is the first time that Tees and I … Read more >>
Typical – just like London buses…you wait ages (54+ years in my case, or 11+ in blogging years) for a Methuselah Indy to blog, and then two come along in a row!
After Phi’s move from his regular spot yesterday, Hoskins takes over the Phiday slot this week.
Unusually, Phi is occupying the Thursday slot, so I suspect a special puzzle has been scheduled for Friday this week. In any case, I have certainly seen nothing in today’s puzzle that would … Read more >>
Skinny is a setter who doesn’t appear very often in the Independent series. The most recent Skinny puzzle was published last November. Wednesday is usually a theme- and message-free day, … Read more >>
Slightly tricky from Wiglaf today, I thought – a few rather obscure definitions. But maybe that’s just me.
Shabbo made his Indy debut on 1 June 2020 and has contributed since to both the daily and Sunday versions. This was very much in line with the previous offerings: tightly clued, one … Read more >>
Thank you to Tees. Definitions are underlined in the clues. Across 1. Hit hard — huge anticlimax (6) BATHOS : BAT(to hit, with, well, a bat) + H(abbrev. for “hard”) + OS(abbrev. for … Read more >>