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Independent 10,123/Tees

Mon March 25, 2019 at 9:17 amMon March 25, 2019 at 7:30 am by Pierre

Another Tees cryptic to start the Indy week. Always a pleasure to solve and blog, and I always learn something. Abbreviations cd cryptic definition dd double definition cad … Read more >>

Independent on Sunday 1,517/Flitwick

Sun March 24, 2019 at 12:05 am by Pierre

Always interesting to get first blogging dibs on a new setter. Until now Flitwick was just a station that I occasionally whizzed through on my way to St Pancras from the East Midlands, … Read more >>

Independent 10,122 by Serpent (Sat 23-Mar 2019)

Sat March 23, 2019 at 9:00 am by beermagnet

O Serpent, have you fooled me this time. I’m well used to there being a theme in a Serpent puzzle, and well-used to missing them, which I don’t usually worry about. But as … Read more >>

Independent 10,121 by Phi

Fri March 22, 2019 at 8:03 am by Bertandjoyce

It’s Phi-day again!

Independent 10,120 / Punk

Thu March 21, 2019 at 10:03 am by RatkojaRiku

Punk has provided today’s daily (over?)dose of cruciverbal entertainment. I found this to be a real challenge, of a puzzle, but one that I thoroughly enjoyed. Punk won the battle between solver and … Read more >>

Independent 10119 / Silvanus

Wed March 20, 2019 at 7:30 am by duncanshiell

Silvanus has produced a few Independent weekday puzzles in recent weeks and I have liked the couple I have blogged previously. I enjoyed this one as well. It didn’t fall … Read more >>

Independent 10118 by Radian

Tue March 19, 2019 at 10:02 am by John

This is now the third of Radian’s crosswords in a row that I have had the pleasure of blogging: all very satisfactory, plenty of good clues, nothing controversial, and a Nina, shortly to be exposed, which wasn’t too hard to see.

Definitions in maroon, underlined. Anagram indicators in italics.

Independent 10,117 by Hoskins

Mon March 18, 2019 at 9:00 am by Quirister

Not the easiest puzzle for a Monday; most of the answers were clear enough with hindsight, but took a bit of work to get there. Thanks to Hoskins for the challenge. Several very … Read more >>

Independent on Sunday 1516 Tees

Sun March 17, 2019 at 4:02 amSun March 17, 2019 at 12:01 am by scchua

Thanks to Tees for an enjoyable crossword. Definitions are underlined in the clues. Across 7 Hot stuff perhaps in Spooner’s Epsom? (5,5) CURRY SAUCE : Spoonerism of “Surrey course”, referring to the Epsom … Read more >>

Independent 10116 by Jambazi

Sat March 16, 2019 at 9:52 amSat March 16, 2019 at 6:45 am by twencelas

With Spring on its way a puzzle from Jambazi to amuse and detract from the clowns responsible for making decisions in this country. Nice and short punchy clues in general – always a … Read more >>

Independent 10,115 / Phi

Fri March 15, 2019 at 4:33 pmFri March 15, 2019 at 10:24 am by RatkojaRiku

Having occupied the Tuesday slot last week, Phi is back in his usual Friday slot this week. Despite there being the potential for a Nina around the perimeter of this puzzle, there doesn’t … Read more >>

Independent 10114 / Nimrod

Thu March 14, 2019 at 7:30 am by duncanshiell

It’s Thursday, so we can expect a difficult crossword Nimrod has given us what we expect … and more. I found this one of the hardest crosswords I have solved … Read more >>

Independent 10,113 by Loglady

Wed March 13, 2019 at 12:53 pmWed March 13, 2019 at 9:40 am by John

Loglady is new to me, which is not surprising since he/she has almost always appeared in the IoS, which I don’t see. Glad to have made the acquaintance: to begin with my impression was that this was an easy new setter, as the first answers went in quickly, but I ground to a halt and was defeated by 6dn. On the way there were some very good clues (1dn, 8dn).

Definitions underlined, in maroon. Anagram indicators in italics.

Independent 10,112 by Vigo

Tue March 12, 2019 at 7:59 am by Bertandjoyce

An enjoyable puzzle from Vigo today. We rattled through the top half extremely quickly but then slowed down.

Independent 10,111 by Gila

Mon March 11, 2019 at 9:00 am by NealH

I found this to be one of those slightly frustrating puzzles where you fly through 90% of it, only to end up completely stumped by a couple of clues where you have all the crossing letters but it doesn’t help.