Never knowingly undersolved
Eccles, one of the more recent additions to the Indy compiling team, has produced this week’s Wednesday puzzle. I found this to be a highly entertaining crossword to solve, at the easier end … Read more >>
Tuesday is theme day in the Independent, so I went looking for one in Radian’s puzzle I didn’t get it immediately as drama is not one of my strong points. However, … Read more >>
An excellent puzzle with some inspired clues.
Kairos is a regular, if infrequent, setter for the IoS (and occasionally, in the Indy itself). Here he’s provided a sound and engaging puzzle with some fine surface readings. Just one definition I … Read more >>
A fairly tough Saturday workout from Punk this weekend… …nothing obvious (to me) on the thematic/Nina front, but some complicated parsings and nice surface readings. PORK SCRATCHINGS, GENE SIMMONS and LEAD SINGER among my … Read more >>
Anglio is occupying this week’s Thursday slot, offering me a first opportunity to blog one of his puzzles. I found this to be a fairly challenging puzzle to solve and quite an intricate … Read more >>
Silvanus is not a setter I have blogged very often. It’s always good to try new challenges. There were a couple of motor racing references with LEWIS HAMILTON as an … Read more >>
Knut often seems to get me, which at least from my point of view is no problem at all, because as usual this is a pleasant and well-constructed puzzle. There are one or two clues which I’m a little vague about, as outlined below, but no doubt they will be explained and it will all be quite obvious.
Definitions underlined, in maroon. Anagram indicators in italics.
Another new setter in the Indy stable. The editor has introduced a few over the last number of years, and they have all proved to be reliable, entertaining and sometimes innovative. What will … Read more >>
Thanks to Hoskins for his usual fine clue surfaces. Definitions are underlined in the clues. Across 1 Harmonise with Liberal breaking wind (5) BLEND : L(abbrev. for a member of the Liberal Party) … Read more >>
Serpent slithers into the Saturday slot this week. At first sight we were intrigued by the unusual grid with no less than eight three-letter words in the middle. We then realised that … Read more >>
Phi’s latest puzzle graces the last of the mid-week slots for this week. I am currently in Helsinki in temperatures of around +30, but I have found a quiet and relatively cool corner … Read more >>
Klingsor has given us a enjoyable blocked crossword today without too many obscure words CELERITY (3 down) was new to me, KEPI at 14 across is a fairly common form … Read more >>
A nice gentle crossword in keeping with the Wednesday traditions laid down by Dac and so ably continued by people like Eccles. It all worked out very comfortably and pleasantly, with the exception of my stupid mistake on 1dn described below.
Definitions underlined, in maroon. Anagram indicators in italics.