Posted by RatkojaRiku on 19th April 2013
It is Friday today, Phi’s customary slot.
I worked quite steadily through this one and, on the strength of the tight wordplay, was able to complete the puzzle fairly quickly and unaided, just using Google to confirm 4. My favourite clues today were 11 for its cheeky surface reading and 21 for its combination of anagram and & lit.
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Posted by duncanshiell on 18th April 2013
Tyrus is a setter more frequently seen in the Independent at weekends than during the week. When he appears in the week, bloggers tend to say they found his puzzles difficult. I’m going to keep up that tradiiton.
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Posted by John on 17th April 2013
Yesterday ‘the Thatcher tribute puzzle’ was referred to but K’s D said that we could rest easy (and he was quite right). I have to be out later, so got up well in time for the devilish concoction that had been prepared for the day of the Thatcher funeral, but simply found the usual Dac. Lovely it was, too, but not devilish. Several of these clues have the smoothest most elegant surfaces. But that’s just par for the course with Dac. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by Bertandjoyce on 16th April 2013
It’s Joyce’s turn this week. We’ve been blogging for over a year now but this is only the second Punk puzzle that we have crossed swords (let alone footballs) with. We always enjoy his puzzles as Paul in Another Place as they normally bring a smile to our faces or a groan of appreciation for his audacity.
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Posted by flashling on 15th April 2013
So we start the week with Quixote, slightly odd looking grid I thought when I opened the paper.
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Posted by Simon Harris on 14th April 2013
A very enjoyable Sunday crossword from Poins, with at least a couple of chuckles along the way. Whilst I think I’ve almost explained everything, one or two bits and pieces didn’t quite click for me, though I’m sure readers can help out.
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Posted by twencelas on 13th April 2013
So Grand National day, so is there a horsey theme to today’s puzzle? And if there was would I actually notice it?
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Posted by duncanshiell on 12th April 2013
It’s Friday and it’s a puzzle by Phi so all’s well in the crossword world.
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Posted by John on 11th April 2013
As we always expect nowadays, a thoroughly good workout from Anax that I thought was, for him, on the marginally easy side. The clues are tight and efficient and some of them quite excellent.
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Posted by Bertandjoyce on 10th April 2013
As usual, a great puzzle from Dac with excellent surfaces, ingenious clue constructions and a good mix of fairly straightforward clues and some which challenged the grey matter.
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Posted by RatkojaRiku on 9th April 2013
It is Tuesday morning, so you can never quite be sure which compiler you will have to pit your wits against, but you can be almost sure that you will have some theme or other to grapple with.
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Posted by NealH on 8th April 2013
I’ve not come across Alchemi before, but this seemed to be very much in the tradition of reasonably gentle Quixote Monday puzzles. There were a few where the wordplay took a bit of working out e.g. 13, 22.
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Posted by Pierre on 7th April 2013
I haven’t blogged a Kairos puzzle before, but having had a brief look in the Fifteensquared archive I see he made his Indy debut earlier this year. I enjoyed tussling with this one, but I can’t remember when I last had to bury my head in the dictionary for so long when solving and blogging an IoS puzzle. There are two clues I can’t explain: I’m pretty sure that one is faulty, and the other may be too. I’m sure someone will put me right if I haven’t understood them properly.
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Posted by mc_rapper67 on 6th April 2013
An interesting mixture from Nimrod here - a plethora of long answers - six 15-letter entries – and a smidge-ette of a theme which, unless I missed something, didn’t seem to develop into anything …
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Posted by John on 5th April 2013
The usual excellent crossword from Phi. I took a bit longer than usual to get started, but once afloat all was well and the typically sound clueing didn’t hold me back too much.
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