Independent

A good crossword from Monk today. I don’t know if I’m getting better at his crosswords (doubtful really) or if he’s becoming a bit kinder. Certainly there used to be a time when … Read more >>

Our turn for another Dac to blog so no complaints about the surface reading of the clues! A good solid enjoyable puzzle as far as we were concerned with a touch of nostalgia … Read more >>

I haven’t blogged an Eimi puzzle for a while, apart from the joint effort from him and Nimrod to mark the publication of the 8,000th Independent crossword, so I attacked this one with … Read more >>

*=anag, []=dropped, <=reversed, hom=homophone, CD=cryptic def, DD=double def, sp=spoonerism If you’re fed up to the back teeth with the Olympics, there was no respite today from the Independent with another Games themed puzzle. … Read more >>

There’s been a bit of discussion recently about the level of difficulty of the Indy Sunday puzzles now that we have a different setter each week.  My experience with this one was that … Read more >>

We found this a relatively straightforward puzzle for a Saturday. Nevertheless it was very enjoyable, and it left us with a bit more time on a busy weekend to tackle the Inquisitor in … Read more >>

Yet another new setter in the Indy apparently. When I saw that it wasn’t the usual Phi, who is no doubt going to appear tomorrow, I had slight fears that it might be … Read more >>

A reasonably easy solve from Klingsor today although there were a couple that took us a while to parse and some good surface readings as one would expect. A couple of good misdirections … Read more >>

It is the last Wednesday of the month, so it must be Dac’s week off and time for a puzzle from Crosophile. After last week’s struggle at the hands of Nimrod, I was … Read more >>

Jambazi is not a setter’s name that I have come across before.  Given the subject matter common to many of the clues, I suspect Jambazi is a one-off pseudonym of a regular Independent setter. … Read more >>

The Don was saying in Another Place last week that if you wanted his most accessible puzzles, then the Monday Indy with his Quixote hat on was the place to come.  And so … Read more >>

I seem to recall that it took me some time to get into this, but did finally complete the answers and parsing.  (Is it my imagination or are the IoS puzzles gradually getting … Read more >>

I must admit that this looked like being a somewhat embarassing “I don’t have a clue what’s going on here” blog post pretty much right up until the last clue was solved. Thankfully, … Read more >>

We always look forward to our blog on a Friday. Phi never seems to disappoint and even when we have finished the puzzle we start looking for hidden themes or ninas. We’ve missed … Read more >>

The honour of blogging a Nimrod puzzle had not fallen to me for a long time, so I approached the task this morning with a mixture of excitement and trepidation. Having completed the puzzle … Read more >>