Never knowingly undersolved
Radian is a regular Tuesday setter in the Independent series I know from experience that Radian has a tendency to put words in the grid that are drawn from speeches … Read more >>
Witty entertainment from Tees. A few obscure words and names, but clearly clued.
I wasn’t sure I had blogged a Loglady puzzle before, so I checked the archive and found that I had, a while ago. I wrote in that blog that I enjoyed it, and … Read more >>
Apologies again for the late posting – an enjoyable (and significant?) puzzle from Klingsor today… I woke up a tad worse for wear this morning, after celebrating cycling coast-to-coast across Lancashire and Yorkshire … Read more >>
It’s Phi-day again and this week, we found his puzzle rather trickier than usual.
Serpent has set today’s crossword for our mid-week delectation. I found this a hard puzzle to make inroads into and had an almost empty grid for a good while. Once I got started, … Read more >>
Eccles fills the Wednesday slot this week. This is a good solid crossword with a few words that are probably not in everyday use by most solvers, but they are … Read more >>
It’s Tuesday and so I was expecting a stinker. Not so it seems: here is a very pleasant crossword apparently of medium difficulty. Most of the clues can be explained with fairly straightforward parsing. My only slight criticism was the grid, which had two faults in my opinion: two of those dreaded answers where 2 out of 5 letters are checked; and after getting only a few answers one was doing two or more separate crosswords.
Definitions underlined, in maroon. Anagram indicators in italics.
An absorbing puzzle with some difficult clues.
Thanks to Poins for an enjoyable puzzle. Definitions are underlined in the clues. Across 1 Against stopping revolutionary comrade’s vehicular procession (9) MOTORCADE : TO(in contact with/against, as in “the gun was put … Read more >>
As far as we can tell, this is Whynot’s first puzzle to be published in the Indy – and an excellent introductory offering it is!
Phi rounds off this week’s set of mid-week puzzles. I found this one to be at the harder end of the Phi and Indy spectrum. I struggled to unpick the wordplay of a … Read more >>
Hoskins always gives something different and today’s puzzle continues in the same vein We have a nina in the two end columns which spell out – BALLAD OF A THIN MAN, written … Read more >>
Since Dac’s sad death Wednesdays have been a problem. Nobody seems to have seized the day. Usually the gentle style has continued, but this crossword was an exception. Not that I have any problems though, since it was as you’d expect from Morph very good.
Definitions underlined, in maroon. Anagram indicators in italics.
We haven’t blogged a Maize puzzle for over a year and a half, so we looked forward to this Tuesday challenge.