Never knowingly undersolved
Eccles is occupying his usual mid-week slot this week. I found this to be an easy-to-medium difficulty puzzle by Indy standards, set on a grid that provides a lot of initial letters as … Read more >>
Winter is coming. Wordplay in all but one down clue contains an extra letter that must be removed to enable solving; these letters spell a name and a location associated with an occurrence … Read more >>
Hippogryph is an Independent setter who has provided 4 or 5 puzzles a year since 2022. His / her work appears in both the daily and the Sunday series. There … Read more >>
A couple of tricky moments in this one, but I was helped a little by … … spotting the theme quite early on. It’s the films of Tom CRUISE, including MISSION IMPOSSIBLE, MINORITY … Read more >>
For my first time blogging a Phssthpok puzzle, this proved to be quite the inaugural challenge, with a pleasant mix of cryptic devices.
MOO kicks off the week…
I enjoyed solving and blogging this offering from Twin. Easier to solve than parse in a number of places, I would say. Abbreviations cd cryptic definition dd double definition cad clue as definition … Read more >>
A tougher than usual Monday challenge.
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Picaroon on fine form with this week’s Quiptic. A pleasing and tractable puzzle with some delightful surface readings. Bravo. Abbreviations cd cryptic definition dd double definition cad clue as definition (xxxx)* anagram anagrind … Read more >>
The hard-working Filbert brings us this Sunday’s Independent offering. Filbert is very much the Indy regular these days. I always enjoy his/her puzzles: they can be devious and occasionally left-field, but they are … Read more >>
A medium-difficulty Azed plain. I was a bit surprised to see two homophone clues: these always excite comment from people whose regional accents don’t make them obvious and Azed has in the past expressed misgivings about using such clues, for just this reason. In my case although I don’t have a regional accent one of them I pronounce differently from what is intended. But never mind; I won’t (like some) make an issue of it: it’s quite obvious what is intended.
Definitions in crimson, underlined. Anagram indicators in italics.
Sunday, so time to take Jenny the dog for a walk in the woods and swim in the sea & then retire to the pub for gravy bones for her, beers plural and the Everyman for me.
Good morning Indy solvers. A relatively pleasurable stroll today courtesy of Rodriguez.
This is an experiment – but it seemed a useful point to summarise the new tricks developed by the Quick Cryptic Crosswords in the Guardian after the first 6 months. The 26th crossword in this series of 11 x 11 crosswords to support new solvers has been published and so far…