Posted by flashling on 25th March 2013
A rather rude awakening here from Donk in places, I found this rather tricky and can’t explain 17ac.
Seems ages since I last wrote a blog here, with Uncle Yap kindly taking over for me whilst I was indisposed.
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Posted by Ali on 24th March 2013
My second outing with an Alechemi puzzle, but this was just as good as the first. I raced through this one pretty quickly, but that was largely due to the neat clueing which meant there was no doubt about the answers. I particularly enjoyed 1A and 21D.
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Posted by Simon Harris on 23rd March 2013
A year or two ago I seemed to draw an Anax every time it was my turn to blog a Saturday Indy. Like female flatmates, it seemed that our cycles had synchronised. Strangely, though, it seems to have been some time since our last tangle, so I was up for the challenge.
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Posted by RatkojaRiku on 22nd March 2013
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Posted by duncanshiell on 21st March 2013
Morph puzzles appear in the Independent about once a month and are very welcome.
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Posted by John on 20th March 2013
As happens on many Wednesdays, we have a neat and perfectly-formed object. You wouldn’t think that such excellent surfaces were possible from the simple material used. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by Bertandjoyce on 19th March 2013
This is the second Hob crossword that we’ve blogged. There was quite a lot to enjoy here but a few of the clues left us a little disappointed after the recent wonderful debut Saturday Prize puzzle.
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Posted by NealH on 18th March 2013
I found this Quixote one of the more difficult ones. There were plenty of easier starter clues but a number of more obscure words meant the bottom part of the puzzle was quite tricky to finish. There were lots of nice, well-constructed clues – 24 was a very neat &lit.
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Posted by Simon Harris on 17th March 2013
I believe Commoner to be a new name to the IoS, and if that’s the case, then welcome! This was very much in the style to which we’ve become accustomed: a good Sunday crossword with nice surface readings and nothing especially troublesome.
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Posted by beermagnet on 16th March 2013
This puzzle had a enormous range of difficulty.
The short clues somehow stood out when I first glanced at the puzzle, and as they were eminently gettable double-defs, oddly enough the top right corner of the grid was tackled first. A few other easy clues also fell quite quickly.
I really enjoyed the middle section of solving – a few more clues were solved with a decent fillip (oojamaflip indeed), others were teased out satisfactorily. At some point I had fully completed the right hand side, but soon after that came to a complete halt with six unanswered, hereafter known as the “hard last half dozen”.
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Posted by duncanshiell on 15th March 2013
This was another fine puzzle from Phi that ranged over a wide range of general knowledge.
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Posted by John on 14th March 2013
Rather late today I’m afraid for various reasons, not the least of which was that this was hard; for me, at any rate, although it all (or nearly all) makes sense now and some of the clues are very good.
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Posted by Bertandjoyce on 13th March 2013
As we have come to expect, another neat puzzle from Dac with excellent surfaces and crafty misdirections – a pleasure to solve and blog!
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Posted by RatkojaRiku on 12th March 2013
It has been a while since I have blogged a Radian puzzle, and I haven’t solved enough of his to have got into any sort of rhythm. What’s more, Tuesday tends to be a day for a themed puzzle ….
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Posted by Pierre on 11th March 2013
Punk is a regular contributor of the Indy Monday puzzle when Quixote’s having a long weekend, and I’m always pleased to see him when it’s my turn to blog. This was a tough one, though.
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