Independent

Eccles has provided this week’s Wednesday teaser. I found this to be a puzzle of two halves in that I sped through the top half of the grid before needing to work harder … Read more >>

This is the second Wire crossword I have blogged.  The first one had a theme based on The Wind in the Willows;  Have we got a theme today?       I think … Read more >>

Another Tees cryptic to start the Indy week. Always a pleasure to solve and blog, and I always learn something.           Abbreviations cd cryptic definition dd double definition cad … Read more >>

Always interesting to get first blogging dibs on a new setter. Until now Flitwick was just a station that I occasionally whizzed through on my way to St Pancras from the East Midlands, … Read more >>

O Serpent, have you fooled me this time.  I’m well used to there being a theme in a Serpent puzzle, and well-used to missing them, which I don’t usually worry about.  But as … Read more >>

Punk has provided today’s daily (over?)dose of cruciverbal entertainment. I found this to be a real challenge, of a puzzle, but one that I thoroughly enjoyed. Punk won the battle between solver and … Read more >>

Silvanus has produced a few Independent weekday puzzles in recent weeks and I have liked the couple I have blogged previously.       I enjoyed this one as well.  It didn’t fall … Read more >>

Not the easiest puzzle for a Monday; most of the answers were clear enough with hindsight, but took a bit of work to get there. Thanks to Hoskins for the challenge. Several very … Read more >>

Thanks to Tees for an enjoyable crossword. Definitions are underlined in the clues. Across 7 Hot stuff perhaps in Spooner’s Epsom? (5,5) CURRY SAUCE : Spoonerism of “Surrey course”, referring to the Epsom … Read more >>

With Spring on its way a puzzle from Jambazi to amuse and detract from the clowns responsible for making decisions in this country. Nice and short punchy clues in general – always a … Read more >>

Having occupied the Tuesday slot last week, Phi is back in his usual Friday slot this week. Despite there being the potential for a Nina around the perimeter of this puzzle, there doesn’t … Read more >>

It’s Thursday, so we can expect a difficult crossword       Nimrod has given us what we expect … and more.  I found this one of the hardest crosswords I have solved … Read more >>