Independent

Crosophile has provided this Wednesday’s cruciverbal challenge. I made relatively swift progress through this medium-difficulty puzzle. I did, however, come to a standstill with two clues left unsolved: 19, which was staring me … Read more >>

Tuesday’s setter is Hippogryph.  As far as I can see from the fifteensquared search facility, this is Hippogryph’s first foray into weekday Independent setting.  There is one Independent on Sunday puzzle by Hippogryph … Read more >>

A delightful Sunday puzzle from Italicus that slowly revealed its secret. The secret being that the crossword has a ghost theme of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, and subsequent novels, by Douglas … Read more >>

Serpent’s latest puzzle awaited us this morning, set on a grid made up of short- and medium-length entries. I found this to be a medium-to-hard puzzle in terms of difficulty. When I had … Read more >>

It’s Wednesday, which is often a day for an Eccles puzzle     It took me a long time to work out the parsing for REEBOK at 11 across.  It was only when … Read more >>

Chuffing Nora, as they say in these parts.     I only ever blog the weekday Indy on a Monday, so am habituated to a reasonably gentle puzzle to start the week, but … Read more >>

Thank you to Hoskins. Definitions are underlined in the clues. Across 5. Was lout letting loose criminals? (7) OUTLAWS : Anagram of(… letting loose) WAS LOUT. 7. American leader’s pretty perceptive (5) ACUTE … Read more >>

The puzzle is available here.   Hi all.  I enjoyed untangling this rather tricky offering from Monk.  I liked 26a and thought 28a also nicely done, although I couldn’t remember exactly who the … Read more >>

Phi’s puzzle brings this latest set of mid-week puzzles to an end. I thought that this was towards the difficult end of the spectrum for Phi in the Indy, and in the end, … Read more >>