Never knowingly undersolved
Poins today. This didn’t seem quite like usual Thursday fare, since Thursdays tend to be rather difficult, for me at any rate, and although there are several places here where I don’t fully understand what’s going on, it did seem to be rather easier than usual.
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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 >>
Knut has provided today’s puzzle, which has turned out to be a tribute puzzle. It doesn’t take long to release that Knut is paying his own personal tribute to UK singer-songwriter George Michael … Read more >>
It’s not Sunday is it? Been a while since Hypnos appeared during the week.
Good stuff from Hoskins once again. This was a solve of two halves for me, starting briskly and then requiring some headscratching for the last 10 or so to fall in. 27 across … Read more >>
The blogging cycle brings me Serpent again which is no bad thing. Serpent has brought some innovation to the puzzles done so far both in terms of themes and clueing, and the same … Read more >>
A very unusual grid in that there are only 22 answers, the fewest I’ve ever seen in a daily cryptic. I’m running a bit late today and wondered why I seem to have caught up: obvious why, with so little for me to do.
Enjoyable and utterly satisfactory as always. So many answers that initially gave difficulty proved to be very simple in hindsight.
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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 >>
Dac has supplied the first Wednesday puzzle of the year, as he has doubtless done on many previous occasions. This was a rather gentle introduction to solving and blogging in 2017 for me. … Read more >>
Thanks to Scorpion I have a good challenge for my first blog of 2017 The puzzle is a pangram. For a while I thought it was going to be a … Read more >>
A very late appearance of this on the Indy website means the blog has been considerably delayed. It’s not giving too much away to say there was a theme of cities.
Happy New Year! There we go, I’ve used my one exclamation mark for 2017. This was an interesting, and tough, puzzle to start us off in the Sindy for 2017. Sherlock appears to … Read more >>
As 2016 reaches its last day a no doubt topical puzzle from Eimi completes the Independent’s year of crosswords. I always enjoy Eimi’s crosswords – they tend to have topical clues and this … 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 >>
Hob has provided the last Thursday puzzle of 2016 and thus occupies my last blogging slot of the year. I think that this was a worthy puzzle to bring my blogging year to … Read more >>