Independent 11,872 by Italicus

Firstly, apologies for posting the wrong blog this morning. I use the Drury's website to do the puzzle but, unfortunately if you open an Indy puzzle in advance of the date there and it hasn't yet been uploaded, rather than tell you it's not there it just shows you an old puzzle. Normally, I check that it's the right puzzle but on this occasion I forgot and just dived in.

Thankfully, the correct puzzle wasn't too difficult and I could knock it off fairly quickly. That's not to say it was a bad puzzle – there were loads of good clues.

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Independent 11,861 by Tack

This is Tack’s third puzzle in the Indy. His two other crosswords were themed – the last one had an amazing grid fill of numerous bands although Duncan managed to find a couple which Tack had never heard of. We’d enjoyed his two other puzzles so were looking forward to solving this one.

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