Independent

eXternal takes the mid-week slot this week – an enjoyable, fairly straightforward solve.   There are no particularly unusual words in the grid and all the definitions and wordplay are clear enough – … Read more >>

Hob has provided today’s cruciverbal entertainment. I found this to be quite a challenging puzzle overall. It was certainly hard for me to finish it and to parse everything satisfactorily, even though it … Read more >>

My second chance on the trot to lock horns with Hoskins as part of the Sunday rotation, which is by no means a complaint. The usual good fun here: lots of very smooth … Read more >>

Armistice day and a puzzle from Serpent, who is rapidly becoming a favourite setter of mine. Serpent’s usual high quality clues were in evidence. The physicist in me liked 22dn whilst the humour … Read more >>

As expected, a fairly tough challenge from Klingsor today.   Having said that, when we came to write up the blog, we wondered why we had any problems – all the clues are … Read more >>

This was my first experience not of solving a Daedalus crossword but of blogging one. I remember Guardian puzzles by Logodaedalus but he could well be unrelated to our setter today …. I … Read more >>

As far as I can see, Filbert is a new setter.  Certainly a search of fifteensquared doesn’t produce any previous puzzles by him / her       There was a puzzle last … Read more >>

Tees has previously set a triple pangram. This wasn’t one of those.   It was in fact a reasonably straightforward cryptic, but with some headscratching required: just right for a Monday, imho. I … Read more >>

Poins has a particular style of setting, which I am finally getting used to. I still find that I need to ponder his clues longer than other IoS setters, but that’s no bad … Read more >>

A challenging puzzle from Anax this week…with some clever cross-references, silky surface readings and a bit of mirthful misdirection… After a bit of a flying start from letting my eye roam straight to 23D … Read more >>

Phi-day again, and the usual excellent puzzle.   Lots to enjoy, but we just cannot figure out 22ac – there’s only one word that fits, and there’s a straightforward definition, but how on … Read more >>

My apologies for the late posting, which is due to unforeseen circumstances this afternoon. This is only the second occasion on which I have blogged a puzzle by Dutch, and I have to … Read more >>