Independent

Knut has compiled today’s puzzle, on what is theme day. This grid accommodates a large number of entries, with a greater than usual sprinkling of shorter entries. As for today’s theme, the gateway … Read more >>

Mog, a compiler whose work I have little experience of as either solver or blogger, has provided today’s puzzle for our entertainment. It will doubtless take me a while to get used to … Read more >>

Atrica sets Independent cryptic crosswords every two or three months.  The previous one was in early May       Tuesday is theme day in the Independent.  Atrica’s puzzles often contain themes, some … Read more >>

Tees starts the Independent puzzling week for us. A sound and pleasing cryptic where the only thing I could find to bitch about was a rather obscure piece of General Knowledge (for which … Read more >>

Hoskins with a puzzle this weekend for those who like him in full-on drugs and schoolboy humour mode. Abbreviations cd cryptic definition dd double definition cad clue as definition (xxxx)* anagram anagrind = … Read more >>

Bluth has provided his latest teaser for our entertainment this Thursday. I found this to be towards the easier, or rather less difficult, end of the Bluth spectrum. I think that I have … Read more >>

Eccles is a regular contributor of Independent cryptic puzzles every second Wednesday.  His puzzles are rarely themed or include messages in the perimeter.  He simply provides well clued puzzles. There were a few … Read more >>