Independent

Wire has supplied this week’s Thursday puzzle. I found this to be a pleasurable, medium-difficulty puzzle through which I made steady progress. I think that I have managed to parse everything successfully, but … Read more >>

Every second Wednesday Eccles comes along with a crossword free of themes and special cluing devices that offers a calm period of solving a well constructed puzzle.       Having said that, … Read more >>

Thank you to Umpire. Definitions are underlined in the clues. Across 1. Bit of equipment from school gym caught in zip (6) PENCIL : PE(abbrev. for “physical education”, or “gym” in a school … Read more >>

Guten morgen, meine freunde. Ich bin in Munchen am Urlaub*. Ok, enough showing off, I have a Methuselah grid to blog before going off in search of more cultural highlights, the best of … Read more >>

Phi is occupying the usual Friday slot, which wasn’t the case when it last fell to me to blog the Friday puzzle on the opening day of the Olympics. I found this to … Read more >>

The only reference I can find for Amoeba as a setter on fifteensquared relate to puzzles supplied by him at the last three Slogggers & Betters get together in York, so I am … Read more >>

Well, that was fun. Hard fun, but fun. I did enjoy the puzzle, mainly for its great surfaces, but it took two goes to finish it off. Some distant, but perfectly fair synonyms … Read more >>

We have the usual end to the Independent working week with a puzzle from Phi.       Phi liked his ‘container and contents’ clues today. Half of the clues had some form … Read more >>