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This is the second time that it has fallen to me to blog a puzzle by Bluth, and once again I found it challenging and entertaining in equal measure. As with my first … Read more >>

A very absorbing and enjoyable puzzle form Poins with some intricate wordplay in places and nice mixture of clues. ACROSS 1 BASIS The fundamental ingredient of cobbler essentially unaltered (5)   [Cob]b[ler] + … Read more >>

The puzzle can be found here.   Hi everyone.  Woohoo! – another Tees puzzle.  Purrs and thanks to him.   Definitions are underlined in the clues below.  In the explanations, quoted indicators are … Read more >>

I always find Wiglaf’s puzzles to be on the hard side, and this grid is one of those where it feels like 4 mini crosswords one in each corner. So although I was … Read more >>

As I’m pretty sure I’ve said before, week after week we go on getting crosswords of a high standard from Phi. I can’t find anything here that is at all controversial, and my … Read more >>

We were delighted to find that we have a Serpent puzzle to blog today – we knew we were in for some fun…… …..and we weren’t disappointed. We normally expect a theme in … Read more >>

It has been a while since it has fallen to me to blog a puzzle by Klingsor, who is a compiler whose work I am more used to encountering on a Thursday than … Read more >>

Gila is a setter whose puzzles appear every two months or so in the daily Independent series.       Following on from the Nina offering advice to electors in the US Presidential … Read more >>

Alchemi is not a regular visitor to the Monday Indy slot, but he has turned up today with an intriguing puzzle for us.       Maybe it’s because I only ever blog … Read more >>

It’s the Peter and Pierre show this Sunday. At the risk of repeating myself, we are not related; as far as I know, we are not even the same sex. The IoS puzzle … Read more >>

As October reaches its conclusion, a puzzle from Wire. A mini horror theme in the clues and some entries – marking Halloween, I suspect. Oh that the  day itself was so understated. Was … Read more >>

Another week goes by and another Phi to solve. As we are now in a Tier 3 area, solving the latest crossword becomes even more of an event. Thanks Phi for the puzzle. … Read more >>

Hob has provided us with something of a teaser to exercise the grey matter this Thursday. It is a while since I have solved or blogged a crossword by Hob, so perhaps I … Read more >>

Eccles on Wednesday is a regular two-weekly occurrence at the moment.       As usual, Eccles gives us smooth surfaces to his clues as well as providing some interesting wordplay devices We … Read more >>

My goodness that was hard. But not for any reason I can see — all the clues make perfectly good sense in retrospect and seem quite straightforward. It was a really good crossword, … Read more >>