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Bertandjoyce

There was a tradition in both our families of solving Telegraph concise and cryptic crosswords. During our student days we moved on to the Observer. When we could afford a daily, we enjoyed the Guardian cryptics until the Indy arrived on the scene. Nowadays, Saturdays are not complete without the Inquisitor in the i paper. We never time ourselves but we do feel cheated if we finish quickly and really enjoy seeking out themes and ninas etc. We are now retired and when time allows, we supplement the daily Indy solve with the on-line Guardian cryptic, Genius and the occasional Quiptic. Finding fifteensquared was a revelation – we realised we are not alone in our attempts to stave off Alzheimer’s!

Independent 9437 / Eccles

January 11, 2017 at 7:56 am by Bertandjoyce

This is our first Eccles blog – as far as we can tell, it is only the 4th Eccles puzzle to feature in the Indy.   It was all good fun, with several … Read more >>

Categories Independent 5 Comments

Independent 9432 / Wiglaf

January 5, 2017 at 8:02 am by Bertandjoyce

This the first Wiglaf puzzle we have blogged. We have enjoyed all his previous offerings, including his IQs, so we really looked forward to this one – and we weren’t disappointed. We found … Read more >>

Categories Independent 8 Comments

Guardian Genius 162 / Enigmatist

January 1, 2017 at 12:01 am by Bertandjoyce

The preamble states: The puzzle is a tribute to two people whose names appear in the completed grid. (There is a numerical link between them.) X and two of his products are in a … Read more >>

Categories Guardian Genius 8 Comments

Independent 9427 / Phi

December 30, 2016 at 7:56 am by Bertandjoyce

Well, it’s Phiday again, will there be a theme? If there is, will we be able to spot it? We have missed some of Phi’s recent themes but we are very pleased that … Read more >>

Categories Independent 9 Comments

Independent 9424 / Radian

December 27, 2016 at 8:10 am by Bertandjoyce

We found this Radian a bit of a challenge for a Tuesday, but one we really enjoyed tackling. The level of difficulty of the clues varied widely, which at least enabled a quick … Read more >>

Categories Independent 3 Comments

Independent 9418 / Hieroglyph

December 20, 2016 at 1:40 pmDecember 20, 2016 at 9:07 am by Bertandjoyce

Many apologies for the late posting of the blog – we got our dates wrong! A fairly straightforward puzzle (fortunately for us!!) from Hieroglyph today, with a theme around the evergreen Christmas film … Read more >>

Categories Independent 10 Comments

Independent 9416 / Klingsor

December 17, 2016 at 8:18 am by Bertandjoyce

As anticipated, this was an enjoyable challenge from Klingsor today. Some excellent surfaces caused a fair amount of head-scratching over the parsing of several clues – 23a and 26a in particular. We had … Read more >>

Categories Independent 5 Comments

Independent 9413 / Raich

December 14, 2016 at 7:52 am by Bertandjoyce

Even if time is short on the approach up to Christmas, we are enjoying having a regular puzzle (or two) to solve each day and were pleased to see that it was Raich today. Several … Read more >>

Categories Independent 4 Comments

Independent 9408 – Rodriguez

December 8, 2016 at 8:09 am by Bertandjoyce

As far as we can tell, this is only the fourth Indy puzzle by Rodriguez, and it’s the second we’ve blogged. The previous puzzle was themed, so we have looked at this one … Read more >>

Categories Independent 4 Comments

Independent 9386 / Crosophile

November 12, 2016 at 8:13 am by Bertandjoyce

We enjoyed this offering from Crosophile today. As we said on Thursday, for a crossword to be enjoyable it has to raise some smiles, have some smooth surfaces and is even better when … Read more >>

Categories Independent 5 Comments

Independent 9384 / Klingsor

November 10, 2016 at 7:59 am by Bertandjoyce

The last Klingsor puzzle that we blogged was back in March last year.   Once again, we enjoyed the solve. It was tricky in places but one of the criteria for enjoying a … Read more >>

Categories Independent 4 Comments

Independent 9379 / Phi

November 4, 2016 at 8:03 am by Bertandjoyce

Will there,  won’t there be a theme to Phi’s offering this week? Actually yes, four of Will’s characters from Shakespeare’s play (in the nina across the bottom row) appear in the grid (in … Read more >>

Categories Independent 4 Comments

Independent 9370 / Punk

October 25, 2016 at 5:14 pmOctober 25, 2016 at 8:08 am by Bertandjoyce

We’re not giving anything away in the preamble when we state that there was an Olympian theme to the puzzle today.   We may be missing something but the chosen Olympians seem to … Read more >>

Categories Independent 6 Comments

Independent 9365 / Anglio

October 19, 2016 at 8:01 am by Bertandjoyce

Anglio takes over Dac’s mid-week slot this week, and it fell to us to blog his puzzle last month as well. As with last month’s puzzle there were some excellent surfaces and clever … Read more >>

Categories Independent 12 Comments

Independent 9360 / Lohengrin

October 13, 2016 at 8:10 am by Bertandjoyce

This is the first Lohengrin puzzle we have blogged, and it really had the old grey matter whirring! At one point we were so stumped we thought we’d have to give up on … Read more >>

Categories Independent 11 Comments
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