Never knowingly undersolved
This is Lohengrin’s first appearance in the Indy; he has had one puzzle published in the Independent on Sunday, which it also fell to me to blog. I found this a bit clunky, … Read more >>
(Please click here for this same blog but with a picture quiz added. Please do NOT post hereinbelow any comment relating to the picture quiz. Thank you.) Thanks Hypnos for an enjoyable, the … Read more >>
For consecutive blogs – a tussle with Nimrod for me! An for consecutive blogs a tribute to a recently departed comic actor. Again the clues and grid are littered with references to the … Read more >>
It’s another Friday, and another Phi-day. We found the last two entries quite tricky and had to use a word search as time was pressing on. We’d never heard of 17d before although … Read more >>
It has been a while since it last fell to me to blog an Alchemi crossword, and solving/blogging today’s puzzle has reminded me of just what I’ve been missing. I found this puzzle … Read more >>
Dac has given us a crossword today that should be welcomed by the fans of themeless and ninaless puzzles. Dac sticks to the basics – good and fair clues together … Read more >>
A nice crossword from Hob today. It all fits together well and there is nothing (now that I’ve seen 26dn) that seems to be a problem.
My first blog of a Vigo crossword although I’ve solved a couple before.
A straightforward Sunday puzzle. Thanks Poins.
A challenging cryptic workout from Klingsor, worthy of a Saturday prize slot, IMHO (if people say that any more?!) I couldn’t see any fancy frills – Nina, theme, etc. – but there was … Read more >>
My apologies for the late posting, owing to a rather unusual Friday for me. Reassuringly, there’s nothing unusual about crossing cruciverbal swords with Phi on a Friday. I found that this was a … Read more >>
Rorschach is a setter who appears in the Independent less frequently than many others. Rorschach’s puzzles tend to generate quite a lot of comment. There was a lot going on … Read more >>
As one always gets from Quixote, an utterly satisfactory, fairly easy but finally tricky, challenge. I went steadily and smoothly through this and then took a long time to finish it off with HABILIMENT, VICE and STELAE my last ones in.
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Thanks Scorpion for a good Tuesday workout. We needed a search for our last one in – 23d and then kicked ourselves. Had we realised earlier that it was a pangram we … Read more >>
() = abbreviation e.g. a(mpere) hom = homophone [] = letters removed I found the parsing of a few of these a bit of a struggle, but on reflection they are mostly reasonable … Read more >>