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Wiglaf has set this week’s Tuesday challenge, whose theme quickly emerges from a first quick perusal of the clues. There is a general music theme today, as can be identified from many of … Read more >>

Gila has filled the Wednesday slot this week, with a puzzle that reminds me of the many puzzles by Dac which appeared in the same Wednesday slot in the past. The reason for … Read more >>

Serpent has set today’s crossword for our mid-week delectation. I found this a hard puzzle to make inroads into and had an almost empty grid for a good while. Once I got started, … Read more >>

Phi rounds off this week’s set of mid-week puzzles. I found this one to be at the harder end of the Phi and Indy spectrum. I struggled to unpick the wordplay of a … Read more >>

Serpent has certainly put me through my paces on this Tuesday morning. And I have to say that he has had the last laugh, since I don’t understand the wordplay at 23 or … Read more >>

Tees has provided the Wednesday puzzle this week. I have to say that I was quite relieved to tackle a more straightforward puzzle this morning, having torn my hair out over the Easter … Read more >>

Nimrod has provided the Thursday teaser this week. I didn’t have a lot of time to blog this week, so when I saw that I had a Nimrod first to solve and then … Read more >>

It’s Phiday/Friday today, and another set of mid-week puzzles comes to an end. I found this to be a medium-difficulty puzzle overall, although Phi almost had the last laugh in that I was … Read more >>

Monk has provided a puzzle to get our teeth into this Tuesday morning. As is customary, Monk gave me a real workout, and I really had to solve this puzzle in two sittings, … Read more >>

Eccles has provided this week’s Wednesday teaser. I found this to be a puzzle of two halves in that I sped through the top half of the grid before needing to work harder … Read more >>

Punk has provided today’s daily (over?)dose of cruciverbal entertainment. I found this to be a real challenge, of a puzzle, but one that I thoroughly enjoyed. Punk won the battle between solver and … Read more >>

Having occupied the Tuesday slot last week, Phi is back in his usual Friday slot this week. Despite there being the potential for a Nina around the perimeter of this puzzle, there doesn’t … Read more >>

Surprise, surprise: it is Tuesday today and yet we have Phi’s latest puzzle to contend with. I haven’t spotted any theme in this puzzle at all, let alone one that would suggest its … Read more >>

Filbert, a compiler whose work I have little experience of, has provided us with today’s cruciverbal challenge. I found this to be quite a tough crossword, both to complete and to parse to … Read more >>

Serpent has provided his latest puzzle for our stimulation this Thursday, on a grid that contains a higher-than-average number of lights. I found that I made steady progress through this puzzle, although at … Read more >>