Never knowingly undersolved
This is my first blog of a Wiglaf puzzle, which today is occupying the last Wednesday slot of the month when Dac typically takes a well-earned break. I found this to be a … Read more >>
Vigo is an occasional contributor to the Independent daily series. I last blogged a Vigo puzzle in August last year. Vigo gives us our money’s worth today with 36 clues … Read more >>
History will perhaps record that the first Independent cryptic of the paper’s digital-only age was set by Punk and blogged by Pierre. I just hope that I’ve done it justice, because it was … Read more >>
It’s been quite some time since we’ve seen Quixote on a Sunday. In fact it’s almost five years to the day because his last IoS was No. 1102 on 27th March 2011. The … Read more >>
I have in my hand a piece of paper…and unfortunately this is the last time I will be able to say that about a newsprint copy of an Indy Prize Cryptic (;+<) (My understanding … Read more >>
The honour of blogging the last weekday, dead-tree Indy cryptic puzzle falls to us on this rather sad day. Although the future of the daily cryptic seems reasonably secure in the online version … Read more >>
It has been a while since I have solved/blogged a puzzle by Tees. I found this one quite a challenge, despite a fair few write-ins at the start. It took me a while … Read more >>
Dac appears in his regular Wednesday slot this week. For the first time in a while I didn’t struggle with the parsing of any of the entries in this blog. … Read more >>
I found this extremely difficult. The clues are all quite understandable once you know the answer, but to get there is often very hard, so far as I can see, there being so many options for the wordplay and the definition.
Definitions in maroon and underlined.
My last Indy blog before the paper goes for good.
I found this different to the usual IoS style, harder and less straightforward. Not a puzzle designed “to let everyone have a go” which I would say is the more normal Sunday theme.
An enjoyable puzzle from Morph this week with some delightful surface readings. We were also very impressed by 17ac. However, we couldn’t help feeling slightly disappointed because we had expected to find … Read more >>
It is Friday today and thus time for my monthly lexical joust with Phi. I found this quite a tough puzzle by Phi standards, and although I completed it unaided, there was a … Read more >>
It’s been a while since I blogged a puzzle by Nestor and I expected something quite difficult. I thought this fitted my expectations. The grid screamed Nina with all the … Read more >>
My apologies to everyone; this is very late. I had computer problems and, having done the blog once but failed to post it, started all over again and used the old system, which … Read more >>