Independent 8,287 / Jambazi
Posted by RatkojaRiku on 7th May 2013
Tuesday today, so you take pot luck in terms of the setter. Today offered me a rare opportunity to blog a puzzle by Jambazi.
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Independent 8286 by Klingsor
Posted by flashling on 6th May 2013
Klingsor starts the week, he seems to have gone for a &lit record attempt it felt like today.
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Independent on Sunday 1210/Hypnos
Posted by Pierre on 5th May 2013
A pleasing puzzle from Hypnos in the usual IoS style – not too challenging, but with plenty of good clues to enjoy. This one fell out nicely – it was a solver-friendly grid and there were no particular obscurities (well, maybe one …)
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Independent 8279 / Nimrod (Saturday Prize puzzle 27 April 2013)
Posted by Bertandjoyce on 4th May 2013
As expected, this was a somewhat challenging Saturday puzzle from Nimrod. Several of the clues were deceptively straightforward, but there were quite a few that were fiendishly constructed, really stirring up the grey matter! There was a bit of a theme affecting six answers, but we’re not aware of any particular event that this might relate to.
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Independent 8284/Phi
Posted by John on 3rd May 2013
It isn’t giving anything away to the casual reader of this blog to say that all the across clues are of two words. I found it rather hard to get started on this, but from the blogger’s point of view the task is easier because there are so few clues to explain. By the end of it I was wondering why I’d had so much trouble, because as usual everything is efficient and quite transparent (except perhaps for 2dn). Read the rest of this entry »
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Independent 8283 / Nestor
Posted by Bertandjoyce on 2nd May 2013
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Independent 8,282 / Donk – MAY Day
Posted by RatkojaRiku on 1st May 2013
It is Wednesday today, and yet we are not crossing swords with either Dac or Crosophile? How can this be? Have I slept right through Wednesday and missed my blogging slot altogether?
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Independent 8281 / Alchemi
Posted by duncanshiell on 30th April 2013
Alchemi is one of the newer setters on the Independent block. This was a pleasant solve without too many pitfalls.
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Independent 8280 by Quixote
Posted by NealH on 29th April 2013
Lots of neat, well-written clues as ever from Quixote. I particularly liked the &lit of 6 and and the apposite surface reading of 22.
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Independent on Sunday 1209 Commoner
Posted by scchua on 28th April 2013
I believe this is only the second IoS from Commoner. Many interesting surfaces. The last answer that I parsed took a bit longer than the others. Thanks to Commoner. Definitions are underlined in the clues. [[The pictures at the bottom have unidentified links to the puzzle. Please enclose any comments on them in double brackets. Thank you.]]
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Independent 8,273 by Bannsider (Saturday Prize Puzzle, 20/04/13)
Posted by Simon Harris on 27th April 2013
A challenging puzzle, as one tends to expect from a Bannsider, but I got there. It took almost the entire week, but I did manage to finish unaided, though one or two took a little longer to understand even once the answer was clear.
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Independent 8278 / Phi
Posted by Bertandjoyce on 26th April 2013
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Independent 8,277 / Crosophile
Posted by RatkojaRiku on 25th April 2013
I did a double-take when I spotted that Crosophile had set today’s puzzle, since I have previously seen his (?) work on Wednesdays only.
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Independent 8276 / Dac
Posted by duncanshiell on 24th April 2013
Dac puzzles are always a joy for a blogger. The clues are excellent and the wordplay is 99% crystal clear.
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Independent 8275/Scorpion
Posted by John on 23rd April 2013
The theme that Scorpion has used here worried me a bit at first because I felt my knowledge of these things generally was a bit thin, but it soon became clear that all the thematic answers were linked. (Have I written enough for the details not to show? I think so.)
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