Independent

Klingsor is a fairly regular contributor to the Independent series of daily crosswords.  He is known to have a strong interest in Wagner.  Today’s reference to Wagner occurred in the clue at 8 … Read more >>

As always on the last Wednesday of the month it’s Crosophile, who makes a good job of being a Dac equivalent. Roughly the same level of difficulty, and some nice clues. I have … Read more >>

This is only my second [I think] foray into Indy blogging territory – standing in for Bert and Joyce today. The Guardian is my puzzle of choice but, since discovering 15², I do … Read more >>

With apologies for its late appearance (see below), here’s my brief blog of Quixote’s puzzle today.  Another good’un from our regular Monday setter, but someone else will have to explain 21dn.     … Read more >>

The Independent crossword does not appear to want to come out to play this morning – all I get is an error message.  I will keep trying, and if that fails I will … Read more >>

I’m not familiar with the name “Noz”, and a trawl through the archives finds nothing, so I wonder if we have a brand new setter with us today. If that is the case, … Read more >>

It’s Saturday and another duel with Anax – who appears to be saving on the word count this week. Well we are in a recession! So a majority of short clues this week, that … Read more >>

This was another enjoyable puzzle from Phi.  There was nothing too difficult or obscure in terms of entries or knowledge required to solve the clues.       I downloaded this puzzle a … Read more >>

Radian has given us a pleasant crossword today themed largely around 16ac, which is connected with many of the clues. I have my doubts about 15dn, although perhaps I have it quite wrong … Read more >>

My apologies for being late.  I am standing in for Bert and Joyce who are on holiday this week and I have accidentally managed to get two blogs for the same morning, neither … Read more >>

It is Tuesday today so there is normally a treat in store for solvers of the Independent cryptic crossword. Today was certainly no exception. This puzzle gets full marks from me for flair … Read more >>

NMSIndy has given up his blogging spot to concentrate on his other existence as Raich (and Gurney) however he appears re-bjorn today as Raich for the Monday slot. NMSIndy was one of the … Read more >>

Always a pleasure to solve and blog a Sunday Indy from Raich.  He had me struggling for the last few today, though … Why, I don’t know, because once I’d solved them it … Read more >>

It took me a while to get through the layers (strata?) of this puzzle, not helped by a school-boy error on 6D and a couple of holes in my 1970s TV-watching CV… Given … Read more >>

Not the usual Friday Phi today (no doubt he appears tomorrow), and rather a difficult crossword from Poins instead. Not everyone is happy with the device of requiring the solver to get certain … Read more >>