Independent

We don’t see Raich in the Indy as often as we used to, so I was pleased to find his name at the top of the puzzle this morning. I found this one … Read more >>

All good fun. Thank you Wire.   ACROSS 1 SHAKEDOWN Extortion in America? Arab chief audibly unhappy (9) SHAKE sounds like (audibly) “sheik” (Arab chief) then DOWN (unhappy) 6 TIFF Twisted healthy wolf’s … Read more >>

The puzzle can be found here.   Hi everyone, and happy Caturday.  I hope your eyes are brighter than mine, and your tails bushier.  After wilting in the heat in what has felt … Read more >>

Phi eases us into the weekend with this Friday offering       I wasn’t too sure about the word ‘bothered’ in the clue for OVERDRIVE at 26 across as OVER could simply … Read more >>

Goodness how difficult, but what a privilege to be able to blog a crossword like this. Maize has yet again excelled themselves. There are lots of excellent and original clues in this crossword. … Read more >>

Eccles again – we are more than pleased! As we always say, a fun Wednesday solve – just the job for the middle of yet another lockdown week ACROSS 1 Tenor joins composer for … Read more >>

Radian has provided today’s puzzle for our intellectual stimulation and general entertainment. It is quite a while since it fell to me to blog one of his puzzles. Today is Tuesday, so there … Read more >>

Tees makes his regular appearance in the Monday slot, this time with (I thought) a tougher puzzle than usual. A few references might be unfamiliar to some readers. I wasn’t entirely convinced by … Read more >>

The puzzle can be found here.   Hi all, I hope you are well.  I always enjoy puzzles by Nitsy but, as seems to be the case a lot recently, I can’t think … Read more >>

Better come clean and admit it – I’m a Dave Gorman fan … … ever since I saw his Googlewhack Adventure show at the Edinburgh Fringe in 2003. Early in that show he … Read more >>

I’ve had dreadful software problems and am doing this in the very old-fashioned way. Sorry it’s so primitive. Phi has as usual produced a very nice straighforward but not entirely simple crossword. The … Read more >>

We haven’t had the pleasure of blogging a Hob puzzle for over a year, so we really looked forward to this….   …..and we weren’t disappointed. We found the puzzle to be slightly … Read more >>

Tees has provided our mid-week cruciverbal entertainment this week. I found this one quite challenging from the point of view of vocabulary, with the entries at 1A, 1D, 4 and 15 all being … Read more >>

It’s a Tuesday so there is going to be some sort of theme.  As it’s a Serpent puzzle it is likely to be a challenging solve as well.       Serpent certainly … Read more >>

I've not come across Harold before and I found this a strange mixture of very easy clues and clues that I really struggled with. 3D was one of those annoying CD type clues … Read more >>