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Well, another Phi-day and a relatively straightforward challenge today.   However, with a few unusual words and several names in the grid, we couldn’t help thinking that there must be a theme. We … Read more >>

We haven’t seen a Monk puzzle in the Indy for quite some time – indeed we had the pleasure of blogging the most recent one last September. We didn’t find this quite as … Read more >>

Well, almost halfway into ‘Dry January’ (not for us, fortunately) and Hoskins comes up with a booze-based puzzle!   We really enjoyed this one, and admired the way that Hoskins has managed to … Read more >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>