Independent

An enjoyable and mostly easy puzzle. ACROSS 1 SEINFELD US sitcom character‘s life ends badly (8)   (Life ends)* 5 GRADES Grammar school receiving excellent 5th place in Ofsted’s rankings (6)   G{rammar} … Read more >>

A nice Sunday puzzle as usual from Tees, makes you think a bit but not so much as to spoil the digestion. Thank you Tees.   ACROSS 8 SANSKRIT Language without appeal draws … Read more >>

Happy new year – well it’s a new one anyway and hopefully we will make it happy. And a treat from Tyrus today. My luck is certainly in – rota wise. Not sure … Read more >>

Phi gives us a good challenge to end the working week (if there is such a standard thing these days)       The English language is fascinating with the variety of different … Read more >>

Serpent provides an enjoyable mental workout today. I understand that there’s usually some sort of Nina or theme in Serpent’s puzzles, but I’ve failed to see one here (apart from the small group … Read more >>

It doesn’t seem that long ago since we blogged the last Bluth – not that we are complaining! We did groan somewhat at the parsing of 15ac – no doubt it will be … Read more >>

It has been a long time since it has fallen to me to blog a puzzle by Wire. I found this to be an enjoyable, not overly taxing, puzzle to kick off my … Read more >>

Happy New Year! There we go, my one and only use of the exclamation mark over with for 2021. On with the puzzle from Italicus. He has been setting for the Indy for … Read more >>

The puzzle can be found here.   Hello and a very Happy New Year to you all. Tees is back doing what he does best – unless, of course, he does other things … Read more >>

Here’s the latest from Phi, who continues to produce enjoyable puzzles every week. The clues range from fairly straightforward to quite tricky, with a good range of clue types and surprisingly few anagrams. … Read more >>

Wow – we have the honour of blogging a Morph puzzle on the last day of the year! We always relish Morph’s puzzles for their topical themes and brilliant clues, but this really … Read more >>

The last Wednesday slot of the year has fallen to Eccles to fill and to me to blog. I think that I have managed to complete this medium-difficulty puzzle correctly, but I would … Read more >>

Hob provides Tuesday’s entertainment.       There’s usually a theme on Tuesday’s Independent.  Today, Hob celebrates [maybe not the right word] the MURDER of THOMAS BECKET in CANTERBURY CATHEDRAL which led to … Read more >>

This is Vernon’s first appearance in the Independent, I believe. It’s not an easy puzzle, but there’s plenty to enjoy. There are some obscure words (especially 15a and 23a), and some slightly complicated … Read more >>