Independent

This is our 300th blog for 225 – but amazingly this is only the 7th Morph we have had the pleasure of blogging in the five years since we started. We hope that … Read more >>

Dac is occupying his customary mid-week slot today. I actually found this puzzle towards the tougher end of the Dac spectrum and had trouble with the intersecting 10-letter lights at the heart of … Read more >>

Punk appears in the Independent series a little bit less than once a month but it’s always a pleasure to see a Punk puzzle       There was one clearly defined theme … Read more >>

I found this tough going for an IoS puzzle, in fact tough going, full stop. It’s all fair (although there’s one I can’t parse).       When I was writing up the … Read more >>

A nice solid cryptic offering from Klingsor here – with some interesting surface readings and mis-directions… No obvious theme or nina that I could see. There seems to be a higher than ‘average’ number … Read more >>

Well, another Phi-day and a relatively straightforward challenge today.   However, with a few unusual words and several names in the grid, we couldn’t help thinking that there must be a theme. We … Read more >>

It is a while since I have either solved or blogged a puzzle by Tees, so I found myself wondering quite what to expect. What I got was a puzzle with two highly … Read more >>

Crosophile is a regular contributor to the Independent crossword series       There was quite a lot of TURNing and TABLEs in this puzzle – grid and clues – but I can’t … Read more >>

Thanks to Kairos for an enjoyable crossword (notwithstanding a little parsing problem). Definitions are underlined in the clues. Across 1 Make a futile attempt to sell Shergar? (4,1,4,5) FLOG A DEAD HORSE : … Read more >>

We haven’t seen a Monk puzzle in the Indy for quite some time – indeed we had the pleasure of blogging the most recent one last September. We didn’t find this quite as … Read more >>

This is my first Friday blog of 2017, but no surprise to find that it is a Phi-day! I found this to be a medium difficulty puzzle, which I made steady progress through … Read more >>

Maize has given us an interesting puzzle       On 6th January John commented that he was blogging an Independent puzzle by Phi with only 22 clues, probably the lowest number of … Read more >>