Independent

I’m not sure what to make of this one.  It’s not a bad puzzle by any means, but it didn’t really hit the spot for me.  Some of the cluing is pretty complicated … Read more >>

An enjoyable Sunday puzzle.  Not much trouble, though a couple in the NE corner were the last ones in, after a while.  Thanks to Poins.  Definitions are underlined in the clues. [[The pictures … Read more >>

Saturday the 15th June – and a tussle with Klingsor. And quite a tussle it proved to be – some unfamiliar words certainly were in use, and some devious cluing. Chitter, Dolce, Mediant, … Read more >>

After a few weeks of completing Phi’s puzzles and then wondering whether there was a hidden theme (and sometimes there was and sometimes there wasn’t), an openly themed puzzle this week. We don’t … Read more >>

It is Thursday today, and it falls to me to blog the latest offering by Hob, a compiler whose work I have hitherto had few opportunities even to solve, let alone blog. I … Read more >>

With a Dac puzzle, bloggers tend to be repetitive in their praise for the smoothness of the surfaces of the clues.  It’s very difficult not to be and this week the puzzle illustrate … Read more >>

A good, slightly tough but not very, workout from Radian today. Some of the clues (especially 18ac) are excellent. There are one or two which I’ve not yet parsed. Let’s hope the penny drops … Read more >>

I was slightly surprised to see Quixote when I got the paper this morning, I thought he did alternate weeks and he did last Monday, something special planned for next week perhaps? Back to … Read more >>

I haven’t blogged a Raich puzzle for a while, but always good to see him popping up on a Sunday. I liked this one a lot. Some tougher words took a while to … Read more >>

An enjoyable prize puzzle from Monk – with an interesting twist, or two… Apologies but a manic week and two blogs to complete tonight mean this will have to be quick. I started … Read more >>

It’s Friday today, so one would expect to be doing battle with Phi. A medium-difficulty puzzle today, in my view, with no apparent theme, although it could well have gone straight over my … Read more >>

I don’t think I have blogged an eXternal puzzle before although I know he/she has produced puzzles for Independent on Sunday and the Inquisitor series in the Saturday Independent.       This … Read more >>

As always a smooth operation from Dac. He has the ability to find the most straightforward parsing of a word, as witness the number of answers that are blogged here without comment. Which … Read more >>

Firstly – many thanks to Uncle Yap and mc_rapper for standing in for us while we were without internet access. What a great puzzle as our first one after a break. It’s also … Read more >>

The usual well-constructed puzzle from Quixote. There was nothing very controversial – maybe a couple of slightly unusual words in 21 and 4, but they were easy enough to work out from the … Read more >>