Independent

No complaints from me about drawing another Radian puzzle to blog. This was a good one, though I seemed to race through many of the clues before becoming completely stumped on the last … Read more >>

I haven’t blogged many Klingsor puzzles – just two to date – and don’t really have much a track record against him, so I approached this with a degree of trepidation in a … Read more >>

Another enjoyable crossword from Tees, who also sets as Neo in the Financial Times.       I started off fairly quickly but slowed down a bit towards the end as I had to … Read more >>

A nice crossword from Crosophile today. He is doing a good job of filling the gap left by Dac on the last Wednesday of every month. Across 1 GIANTSCAUSEWAY — (casting)* au se{a}way … Read more >>

Gah I hate insomnia but it means an early post. Slight surprise to see the editor again, but very welcome nonetheless. On seeing Eimi I was a little self duped into thinking this … Read more >>

*=anag, []=dropped, <=reversed, hom=homophone, CD=cryptic def, DD=double def, sp=spoonerism An enjoyable puzzle by Morph with no particular theme that I could see. It was mostly fairly straightforward, but there were a couple I … Read more >>

I think it’s my turn to blog the IoS. The calendar says so, though the Christmas break threw the rota out of whack a little. Apologies if I’m stepping on anyone’s toes. Our … Read more >>

The man from the banks of the Bann gives us a characteristically tricky prize crossword challenge with several clues that had me foxed for quite a while.  Several of them up to and … Read more >>

From today, I have transferred from blogging weekday Guardian crosswords on a 3-week cycle to blogging Independent weekday crosswords on a weekly cycle. I have blogged Phi crosswords in the Independent once or … Read more >>

The usual outstanding crossword from Anax. Of course there are one or two about which I’m not quite sure, but that’s usual. There are some quite brilliant clues here. I’ve referred to one … Read more >>

It’s a Dac, so it’s what you expect, just a fine puzzle as per usual. My learned colleagues have been under the impression that Dac appears every Wednesday, but actually he gets a … Read more >>

It’s Tuesday and the puzzle has been set b(u)y Scorpion, so there just has to be a theme to it, I thought, and Scorpion did not let me down. As themes go, this … Read more >>

People were saying on last Friday’s Indy blog that Phi’s crossword was a bit harder than usual, and that was my experience with this Monday Quixote – a few less common words and … Read more >>

A puzzle from Hypnos that was in parts perhaps easier to solve than parse.  It was certainly the hardest of the IoS puzzles I’ve blogged so far, with a number of clues that … Read more >>

Need some exercise for the new year – Nestor’s puzzle is certainly a good work out! As you would expect. So the first Saturday of 2012 brings us a Nestor puzzle, with some … Read more >>