Never knowingly undersolved
Extra letters in the across clues spell out a description of two consecutive moves for the title of the puzzle. This need to be applied to the king in the grid leaving empty … Read more >>
Gurney is the FT compiler today
A tricky one today from Harpo (aka Monk), with some unfamiliar (though helpfully clued) words. Thanks to Harpo. With AJAX, QADI and ZONE in the grid, I suspected a pangram, and indeed it … Read more >>
Bluth has provided our cruciverbal entertainment this Wednesday. As always with Bluth puzzles, I found this to be very challenging and highly entertaining. I have struggled to parse a good few of the … Read more >>
Great puzzle from Basilisk this morning.
Paul is today's setter.
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Vismut is a setter who contributes regularly to the Inquisitor and Enigmatic Variations series of of barred puzzles. This is her twelfth Inquisitor and a study of the previous ones shows that the … Read more >>
Filbert is one of the most prolific setters of Independent puzzles at the moment and today we have another of his challenging puzzles I always find Filbert’s puzzles difficult and … Read more >>
Just when I think I am really getting the hang of these puzzles, I run headlong into a workout like today’s offering from Aardvark, which required quite a bit of GK and lateral thinking before I finally struggled through the final clue.
The puzzle may be found at https://www.theguardian.com/crosswords/cryptic/29454.
MOO kicks off the week…
Pasquale kicks off the week in fine style. It’s over a year since I blogged a Pasquale puzzle and I really enjoyed this one. We have an interesting and wide-ranging set of clues … Read more >>
My first Independent blog in a while…
Anto’s first crosswords for the Guardian were in the Quiptic slot, and it’s fair to say that they were not universally well received, either for their quality or for their suitability for the … Read more >>