Amoeba has been setting for the Independent fairly regularly over the last year. He usually appears on Saturdays or (as here) Thursdays.
Day: 14 August 2025
Cryptic crossword No 29,773 by Brockwell
It’s the usual summer-holiday reshuffle of the blog rotas: I’m covering for Eileen today, and she will return the favour later this month.
Financial Times 18,133 by MUDD
Mudd is the setter of this morning's FT puzzle.
Enigmatic Variations No.1706 – Impact by Ifor
“Four horizontal bars have been omitted from the two central columns. Having filled the grid, solvers must highlight a pair of words in the outer two columns that describe an action, and show its IMPACT on the grid by moving a thematic block of cells within the central columns, displacing another block and creating five new down entries, no two of which have the same length, to be delineated by adding four bars. The thematic block must also be highlighted. Clues to the 17 across entries that are unchanged each contain a letter to be dropped to enable solving. In clue order these letters spell a thematic name.
“All changes to grid and clues create new words, including one proper name in the grid.”