Independent

I don’t think I have blogged an eXternal puzzle before although I know he/she has produced puzzles for Independent on Sunday and the Inquisitor series in the Saturday Independent.       This … Read more >>

As always a smooth operation from Dac. He has the ability to find the most straightforward parsing of a word, as witness the number of answers that are blogged here without comment. Which … Read more >>

Firstly – many thanks to Uncle Yap and mc_rapper for standing in for us while we were without internet access. What a great puzzle as our first one after a break. It’s also … Read more >>

The usual well-constructed puzzle from Quixote. There was nothing very controversial – maybe a couple of slightly unusual words in 21 and 4, but they were easy enough to work out from the … Read more >>

Another good Sunday puzzle from Hypnos, with a range of difficulties, though nothing overly troublesome. 10ac and 11ac put up a bit of a fight for me, though in retrospect they seem perfectly … Read more >>

A bonus blog for me – covering for Bert & Joyce, who are no doubt on some well-earned R&R… An interesting and enjoyable challenge from Punk this week. No obvious theme or Nina … Read more >>

For the first time in three weeks I get to blog a puzzle without a classical or modern music theme.  This puzzle by Phi is simply a good example of what a national … Read more >>

When I saw who was the setter my fear was that I was going to have to bite my tongue and go along with some of Donk’s less Ximenean ways, but so far as … Read more >>

Bertandjoyce are away & without internet access; so I am subbing in this midweek spot. Dac, as usual, served up a varied potpourri of very fair clues. I particularly like his efforts to … Read more >>

My apologies for the late posting of this blog on today’s crossword by Tees. It is Tuesday today, and so a theme is to be expected. Unless I have missed something, today’s theme … Read more >>

I really enjoyed this Morph puzzle.  We keep bumping into one another on a Monday, but when a crossword is this good, I don’t mind in the least.  Plenty of  excellent surfaces, some … Read more >>

Crosophile has been a regular monthly contributor to the Wednesday slot in the Independent, but is this his first IoS puzzle?  It’s certainly the first time I’ve blogged him.  It was a good … Read more >>

This was a funny old puzzle. I raced through about 90% of it without blinking, then completely ground to a halt on the last handful. Even with a week to think about it … Read more >>

Phi continues to produce nice Friday crosswords. He is always a bit tricky to get started on, then once one is going it all falls into place fairly quickly. The sign of good … Read more >>

It’s Thursday and it’s Nestor so we expected to have our work cut out here. We weren’t disappointed! There were some devious clues here plus a few new words which needed checking. There … Read more >>