Independent

Quite unusually, Hoskins is filling the Wednesday this week. I found this puzzle to be of exactly the right level of difficulty for a mid-week puzzle, i.e. not too stiff a challenge but … Read more >>

Bluebird challenges Independent solvers today.  I last blogged a puzzle by Bluebird when he produced a puzzle dedicated to the setter Klingsor who sadly died recently.       I made steady progress … Read more >>

Hypnos has a pleasing and tractable puzzle for us to enjoy over Sunday morning coffee. Abbreviations cd cryptic definition dd double definition cad clue as definition (xxxx)* anagram anagrind = anagram indicator [x] … Read more >>

A puzzle in memory of a wonderful man, which can be found here.   When I solved 17a I was reminded of a recently departed friend.  A little further in and it dawned … Read more >>

Rodriguez’s latest puzzle provides us with our daily cruciverbal challenge today. I found this to be quite a challenging and thoroughly enjoyable puzzle. I think that I have managed to solve and parse … Read more >>

We have an Eccles puzzle today in the Independent today.       Eccles provides us with his usual assortment of deceptively simple clues.  I particularly liked the clue for BEHAVED (25 across) … Read more >>

Thank you to Shabbo.  Definitions are underlined in the clues. Across 1. A few good-looking bananas dropped off (4) SOME : “handsome”(good-looking/physically attractive) minus(… dropped off) “hand”(a bundle or cluster of bananas). 3. … Read more >>

You learn something new every day and you certainly do if you tackle Tees’s puzzles. Solving started at pace:  8A SEA WALL seemed very obvious, then 1D ASTEROID looked like a well known … Read more >>

Friday is Phiday and thus brings us his latest crossword to solve. I found this to be a medium-difficulty Phi puzzle overall, one that I had to chip away at after writing in … Read more >>