Never knowingly undersolved
It’s Wednesday morning and thus time for my monthly outing with Dac. Dac puzzles are always enjoyable, with tidy clues that can be parsed with absolute certainty, relying little on abstruse information or … Read more >>
Knut.has a reputation for producing topical puzzles. This puzzle is topical, but I suspect it could have been published at any time over the next four months as the topic … Read more >>
Another new setter before the demise of the print edition, I guess for a setter seeing your name on line doesn’t have the same cachet as seeing it in print where you’ve “made it”.
(Please click here for this same blog but with a picture quiz added. Please do NOT post hereinbelow any comment relating to the picture quiz. Thank you.) This required 2 sittings to complete, … Read more >>
Well in the week that the Independent announced its departure from the newsagent stands – a tussle with Nimrod beckons and perhaps my last ever blog of an Independent crossword. I for one … Read more >>
Another great Phi-day puzzle, and one that we found a bit trickier than usual. As it’s Phi, we’re sure there is a theme, but we haven’t been able to find it yet. There … Read more >>
It has been a while since it has fallen to me to blog a puzzle by Anax, so I sharpened my pencil with relish when I discovered today’s puzzle. This crossword took me … Read more >>
As this is the last Wednesday of the month. Dac gives way to one of his colleagues. Today it is Quixote I’ve been blogging on fifteensquared since November 2007 and … Read more >>
Rather hard today, but I suppose it is Tuesday and we have to be prepared for this. Plenty of good clues here, which often didn’t yield initially but afterwards were obvious enough. From time to time Hieroglyph requires us to split one word into two, something that not everyone is happy with and not something one often sees in the Indy. I have no objection to it myself, but it would be nice to know that it either is or isn’t standard practice at the Indy.
Definitions underlined and in chocolate today. Which at the moment (before publication) looks like bright orange. I’ve never eaten chocolate of that colour.
I found this to be challenging for a Monday with a mixture of easy and tricky clues. I had a couple of minor quibbles but it was mainly sound with some occasionally complicated … Read more >>
A good straightforward puzzle. Thank you Hoskins.
An enjoyable and diverting puzzle from Klingsor this week – no fancy theme or Nina, as far as I can see anyway! Some nice clue surfaces and a wide variety of clueing devices … Read more >>
After the recent announcement about the Indy’s exclusively online future, it is hard to know what future lies in store for its crosswords. I for one have my fingers and toes crossed that … Read more >>
I always find Tees’ puzzles a challenge, but an entertaining challenge. The allusions in Tees’ clues tend to focus on topics that don’t play to any strengths I may have. … Read more >>
As usual from Dac. I think this was on the easy side — I didn’t time myself but had no problems and by my standards sailed through it. Which isn’t to denigrate it: it’s well up to the level we have come to expect from this setter.
Definitions underlined and in SaddleBrown today. As usual I had to make amendments so 15ac and 22dn aren’t quite the right colour.