Independent

It’s now October – beware of the snake. I do enjoy Serpent’s puzzles – great surfaces and slightly odd cryptic directions. And of course a hidden message WHAT WE DO IN THE SHADOWS … Read more >>

Eccles is occupying his usual mid-week slot this week. I found this to be an easy-to-medium difficulty puzzle by Indy standards, set on a grid that provides a lot of initial letters as … Read more >>

Hippogryph is an Independent setter who has provided 4 or 5 puzzles a year since 2022.  His / her work appears in both the daily and the Sunday series.       There … Read more >>

I enjoyed solving and blogging this offering from Twin. Easier to solve than parse in a number of places, I would say. Abbreviations cd cryptic definition dd double definition cad clue as definition … Read more >>

The hard-working Filbert brings us this Sunday’s Independent offering. Filbert is very much the Indy regular these days. I always enjoy his/her puzzles: they can be devious and occasionally left-field, but they are … Read more >>

Mog has set our cruciverbal challenge today, and what a challenge it turned out to be! I made incredibly slow progress through this puzzle and began to think that I wouldn’t be able … Read more >>

Eccles is a regular Independent setter, usually appearing on a Wednesday every two weeks.       Eccles focuses on good clues and rarely, if ever, includes a theme in his puzzles.  He … Read more >>

Thank you to Tees. Definitions are underlined in the clues. Across 7. Get her this novel where Waterstones might be (4,6) HIGH STREET :  Anagram of(… novel) GET HER THIS. Defn: The main … Read more >>