Independent 9,376 by Raich

This crossword from Raich is to the usual high standard that we have come to expect from him. All the clues seem to me to be neat and uncontroversial with good surfaces, and the theme is something you don’t really need to know in order to solve the crossword, which is as it should be.

Raich always seems to appear on Tuesdays, which I find a little hard to understand. I wouldn’t say this was a doddle, but it was much easier fare than the sort of stuff we often get on a Tuesday, a day which sometimes competes with Thursday for the title of ‘most difficult day’.

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Another Anniversary!

Another year has passed and again we have reached the anniversary of the first blog being posted on Fifteensquared – this time it’s the 10th. So, what has been achieved during the last … Read more >>

Independent on Sunday 1393 Poins

Not so easy for a Sunday puzzle. Thanks to Poins. Definitions are underlined in the clues. Across 1 Get former pupil to exercise right away (6) OBTAIN : OB(abbrev. for “old boy”;a former pupil … Read more >>

Everyman 3655

Mainly charades, anagrams and insertions this morning.  Which for an entry-level puzzle is just as it should be.       Abbreviations cd  cryptic definition dd  double definition (xxxx)*  anagram anagrind = anagram … Read more >>

Azed 2316

Apologies for the late posting: I went off to the Sloggers and Betters event in York having forgotten to finish and post the blog (and despite reminding myself numerous times that I needed … Read more >>