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It’s Phi-day again!   We have to say that, as a solve, we found this rather ‘vanilla’ – not unenjoyable, but not really very challenging. Phi’s choice of entries for the four-letter words … Read more >>

As usual, we enjoyed today’s puzzle from Knut.   The theme became apparent very early on with the very straightforward gateway clue at 15ac. Several of 15ac’s film titles appear in the entries … Read more >>

It’s great to see Dac back this Wednesday – all the usual smooth surfaces and straightforward clueing.   Are we showing our age (and Dac’s!) with 6d and 24ac? We don’t think that … Read more >>

A great Thursday challenge from Klingsor this week that we really enjoyed.   The NE corner went in fairly quickly and as soon as 10 across was solved we both thought – pangram? … Read more >>

Another week, another Friday, another offering from Phi.   We found this fairly straightforward apart from having to check 8 and 9 down. Joyce had vaguely heard of 8d and we both guessed … Read more >>

We thought this was a bit of a toughie today from Tyrus   The gateway clue at 16ac eluded us for some time, and even with some crossing letters we had to check … Read more >>

We really enjoyed this Crosophile offering today.   The theme became apparent early on, although at first we thought it was based on 1d-ic drinks until we realised that there are a lot … Read more >>

Silvanus taskes over the mid-week slot today – this is his third Indy puzzle and the first for us to blog.   We found it as enjoyable as the previous two offerings – … Read more >>

A fairly straightforward puzzle from Tees today – is Thursday no longer the ‘toughie’ day in the Indy?   We didn’t notice it when solving, but we realised when writing up the blog … Read more >>

Another Phi-day and another Phi, although we have to say that this didn’t feel like a ‘normal’ Phi although we cannot identify quite why.   We were somewhat puzzled by the wordplay in … Read more >>

A fun puzzle from Hoskins today – mostly fairly straightforward, but with a few that got us thinking.   We only realised that there was more to the puzzle when we had moreorless … Read more >>

This is our first blog of a Serpent puzzle. Although he has been around setting daily cryptics for the Independent for a while, we remember him more for the excellent Inquisitor puzzles that … Read more >>

Crosophile stands in for Dac this week.       It was only when we were compiling the blog that we realised that there is a theme here – given away (perhaps unnecessarily?) … Read more >>