Independent

We had the pleasure of blogging the most recent Hob puzzle last month, and fate has landed him at our door again this week. The theme to today’s puzzle became fairly obvious early … Read more >>

Today was my first opportunity to solve and blog a puzzle by Hoskins, on a day when I was expecting to meet Dac’s latest offering. I very much enjoyed this puzzle, which I … Read more >>

Tees makes his occasional (nearly monthly) appearance today.       Well, there’s no subtlety about the theme – pigs and one alleged pig-associated incident.  I suspect the associated theme will delight some solvers … Read more >>

Porn, Japanese cuisine and same-sex relationships seem to be the leitmotifs of this Sindy offering from Gila.  Are these things related?  I think we should be told.       This is his/her … Read more >>

Sorry for the late appearance of this analysis, I don’t know what has prevented the scheduled blogger from posting today. The usual very high quality from Klingsor with many excellent clues (too many … Read more >>

Another Phi-day challenge today.   As usual, all good fun, not too tricky, but definitely not a write-in either. We’re sure there is a theme in there somewhere, but we haven’t been able … Read more >>

Morph’s latest puzzle offers today’s cruciverbal entertainment. I thought that this was a medium-difficulty puzzle by Morph, and I made steady progress through it until coming to something of a standstill in the … Read more >>

Dac provides us with his usual Wednesday challenge       I thought this was to towards the easier end of Dac’s difficulty spectrum.  The only thing that gave me real difficulty was … Read more >>

I’ve given up on saying that the Monday puzzle in the Indy is no longer ‘the easy one’.  It was, but it isn’t any more.  Fair play.  I found this pretty hard, and … Read more >>

A bit tougher than the usual Raich, I thought.  Or perhaps just me still recovering from England’s double exit from Europe, so brain not in gear.       That said, there was … Read more >>

A new setter for me to blog today. How devious is Serpent’s clueing? And is there anything hidden? A very enjoyable puzzle indeed. Some novel clues 10ac and 7dn were unusual but my … Read more >>

Another working week comes to an end, with a puzzle by Phi to take us into the weekend. This was a medium-difficulty Phi puzzle, in my opinion. I managed to complete it unaided … Read more >>

It’s Thursday so that sometimes mean a more difficult Independent crossword.       I know some of John MILTON‘s works but I wasn’t aware of the polemic AREOPAGITICA entered at 11 down. … Read more >>