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Tees is a top setter, but you wouldn’t set your calendar by him. He’s not knocked Phi off his Friday perch yet, but I think we’ve seen him every other weekday in the … Read more >>

Another Sunday morning Peter ‘n’ Pierre show. A tractable puzzle just right for the IoS slot, I thought. Of particular note (for me at least) were a namecheck and a bird. Life is … Read more >>

The puzzle can be found here.   Hi everyone.  A Bluth crossword is always a pleasure, so after another long week I was delighted to have a Caturday treat in store.  I found … Read more >>

Phi-day comes round again! For once we didn’t have to search for a theme – it was pretty clear from the first few entries that the weather would play a significant part in … Read more >>

Tees has provided our cruciverbal entertainment this Thursday. I found this to be a medium-difficulty puzzle that I made steady progress through. I solved all but the intersecting entries at 8 and 10 … Read more >>

Hoskins tests our skills today There are lots of references to drugs, drinks  and bawdy activity in the clues, but that I think that is just typical Hoskins’ phraseology in cluing rather than a … Read more >>

Atrica, as usual, has produced a tricky but enjoyable challenge. I particularly liked the cleverly misleading 23a, the wry political comment of 5d, and the typically English understatement of the definition in 6d. … Read more >>

A trickier than usual Monday puzzle today – as we’d expect from Klingsor, who normally appears later in the week. There are some unusual constructions, including the reverse wordplay of 1a and the … Read more >>

Thank you to Tees, our regular Sunday setter. Definitions are underlined in the clues. Across 1. Reduce consumption? That’s futile (7) USELESS : [USE LESS](reduce consumption). 5. Man turned right in Bath, finding … Read more >>

So here we are again, the calendar has turned and I have landed a Saturday Nimrod When tackling it I didn’t bother to time myself, I knew it would take ages.  It definitely … Read more >>

Phi is occupying his usual Friday slot today. I found this to be an easier than average puzzle by the standards of Phi in the Indy. Perhaps the solving process was helped by … Read more >>

Rodriguez taxes our cruciverbal skills today.       Rodriguez has managed to get a musical reference into every clue.  The majority of the references are music genres.  Getting a musical allusion into … Read more >>

Eccles is leading us astray today, in a good way – plenty of amusing misdirections. I enjoyed the definitions hiding in plain sight in 15d and 16d, and the “just do what it … Read more >>

It’s been quite a while since we last blogged a Radian puzzle, so we looked forward to this. And we weren’t disappointed. Being a Radian and on a Tuesday, there had to be … Read more >>

An enjoyable and mostly easy puzzle. ACROSS 1 SEINFELD US sitcom character‘s life ends badly (8)   (Life ends)* 5 GRADES Grammar school receiving excellent 5th place in Ofsted’s rankings (6)   G{rammar} … Read more >>