Never knowingly undersolved
We have come to expect the Thursday Indy puzzle to be tricky, and this offering from Tees was no exception. We were not helped by the fact that no fewer than five of … Read more >>
Nothing too taxing in this offering from Sleuth – just a smart, enjoyable puzzle.
Monday Prize Crossword / Feb 23, 2015
A puzzle from Crux somewhere between a Dac and a Dante/Rufus. Too many cryptic definitions to my taste today.
Prize puzzle from the Weekend FT of February 21, 2015 So, another new setter has wandered into this space. And one I know nothing about. His or her initial offering seems a mixed … Read more >>
Another good and interesting puzzle from Gozo, as we have come to expect from him. Always a pleasure to solve and blog.
It is Wednesday today, so it is Dac’s weekly opportunity to put Indy solvers through their paces. For me, this was a typical Dac puzzle in terms of level of difficulty. I was … Read more >>
Found this tough…
The rubric read: One answer is not to be entered in the grid. Answers to four clues which lack definitions are thematic. Solver must highlight two other normally clued entries to complete a … Read more >>
A new setter makes his Guardian debut, and a very promising one, with a good variety of sound clues. I found this quite hard, perhaps partly because I didn’t know what to expect, … Read more >>
Hieroglyph appears on a monthly basis in the Independent weekday series. Once you solved any of the across clues in this puzzle, it was fairly obvious what the theme was. … Read more >>
Typical Tuesday puzzle. Mostly easy clues with straightforward wordplays.
Late on parade; apologies. Laptop meltdown when I was about to post. Has anyone else screamed abuse at an inanimate object? Enjoyed it, but a bit hard for a … Read more >>
After a tough Monday puzzle last week, this was back to more gentle fare with plenty of easier clues to get you enough crossing letters to do the trickier stuff. Across 7. Trade … Read more >>
Good morning, as expected a Rufus for a bright and cold Monday here in Suffolk after a wet and windy night.
With apologies to anyone who struggled, I found this Cyclops puzzle quite easy. There were a couple that I only pencilled-in early on because I couldn’t see the wordplay at the time or thought there … Read more >>