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As in previous years, I’m giving my solving times for the Indy crossword for 2013 showing the average for each setter.    Also info is given on solving times for each day of the … Read more >>

As in previous years, I’m giving my solving times for the Indy crossword for 2012 showing the average for each setter.    Also for the first time this year, analysis is given of each … Read more >>

Pleasing puzzle in the usual Quixote style, all accessible and clear, quite easy, I thought, solving time, 17 mins * = anagram ACROSS 1 SLEEPY    lee in spy 4 RAMBLING    ram b (born)  … Read more >>

Tyrus is one of the harder Indy setters and often appears at the weekend.      This puzzle however I found easier than Tyrus usually is, tho harder than the Indy puzzle on average.    Solving … Read more >>

Enjoyable puzzle in the style one associates with Quixote.     Trickiest part was SW quadrant and also 19D which was a new word to me but a very accessible puzzle overall.    Solving time, 17 … Read more >>

A very entertaining puzzle from Radian, where, I think before a clue was solved, everyone would have realized there was a theme with all the cross-references in clues. I was impressed by how … Read more >>

I found this quite a bit tougher than Quixote usually is, solving time 38 mins.     Very enjoyable puzzle – esp liked 27A, 8D and 20D. * = anagram ACROSS 1 BEARINGS     a  R … Read more >>

I found this a mixture of quite easy and very tricky, solving it in 32 mins though I’d all but the last four answers in around half that time.      There are two where … Read more >>

Enjoyable puzzle from Quixote, which I found perhaps a tad more difficult that he usually is.    Solving time, 21 mins, and pleased to learn two completely new words getting them from the wordplay … Read more >>

Back to work in the UK today as the Indy moves into the ninth thousand of cryptic puzzles in its series.      Who better to set it than the Indy stalwart Dac.     Typical Dac … Read more >>

Very good puzzle from Quixote.     Very good surface readings, all fair.     Straightforward wordplay for less familiar words.    On another xword blogging  site, one of the bloggers lists the (classical) music listened to while … Read more >>

A puzzle which I enjoyed, solving time 32 mins.   I found the top half very easy but the bottom half far more difficult.   Mordred often has themes/Ninas, sometimes quite subtle ones.  … Read more >>

I find Quixote pretty much the easiest of the Indy setters and I found this puzzle very easy indeed even by his standards, solving in what for me was a very fast time … Read more >>

Enjoyable puzzle in the Punk style.     Some of it was fairly easy, but then I struggled to finish with some answers that were less familiar (to me anyway).    Solving time, 27 mins * … Read more >>