Never knowingly undersolved
To adapt a well-worn and topical football cliché, Nimrod would probably be the first name on the Indy (or any other) crossword editor’s ‘team sheet’…and to quote the Monty Python team in their (admittedly … Read more >>
Phi has given us an interesting puzzle today First look at the grid suggests it is a classic design for a message round the outside. However, Phi is only … Read more >>
As usual a good crossword from Monk today. His mistake (I assume, using the authority of Google) in 18ac is perhaps a slight blemish but otherwise there is the usual range of nice clues, some of them setting me back for longer than I would like. But we can’t all be speed solvers, can we.
Definitions underlined and in maroon.
Another well-crafted puzzle from Dac today. We’d never come across 4ac before but once we had a few crossing letters it fell into place. Across 1 Thinking comic has forgotten introduction (6) MUSING … Read more >>
Today is Tuesday, so a themed puzzle of one sort or another is to be expected. And Math, a compiler with whose work I have hitherto had only a passing acquaintance, has not … Read more >>
I found this extremely tough and almost ground to a halt completely a couple of times. But with some perseverence I managed to finish it.
You might think I should be on Poins’ wavelength by now, having had many months drawing Poins every time I blogged an Independent on Sunday puzzle. Instead I found this quite a challenge, … Read more >>
We found this a fairly straightforward Saturday challenge from Tees, but we’re too depressed by yesterday’s result to say any more. We did like the definition at 20 across however. Across 8 … Read more >>
A Phi crossword of medium difficulty, I found, although it all seems perfectly straighforward now. The mark of a good setter, they say.
Definitions underlined and in maroon.
Well, EU Referendum Day, and the Indy goes for a themed puzzle from Hob – based on…..cricket! However, it is the 100th anniversary of the birth of one the most iconic English … Read more >>
I was surprised not to find myself on familiar territory today, having expected to have Dac’s latest puzzle to solve and blog this Wednesday. As it was, today provided me with my first … Read more >>
Radian has given us a puzzle today with mainly common words or phrases in the grid There seems to be a monetary or financial theme in the grid with entries such … Read more >>
I had in my mind that I had blogged one of Vigo’s previous puzzles in the Indy, but it turns out that I haven’t. So this is our first date. On the whole, … Read more >>
Peter’s second puzzle for the Sindy, and for the second time it falls to me to solve and blog it. No sweat – it was a good puzzle with some pleasing surfaces and … Read more >>
I’ve read that some find Nestor to be at the easier end of the Saturday Independent spectrum, though I’m not sure that I’ve always agreed. There was some lovely stuff in here either … Read more >>