Never knowingly undersolved
Harpo rounds off the week’s puzzles with an enjoyable challenge. I found this quite tough going but very satisfying to (almost) finish, with some splendid anagrams, ingenious and meticulous cluing and witty surfaces … Read more >>
Misprints in every clue spelling out three characters – which form the subject of a question in a work that must be removed from the final grid. Right on my wavelength this one … Read more >>
If flashing hadn’t stood in for us in March, we would have blogged three Rodriguez puzzles in a row.
A slow solve until the longer solutions started going in. My favourites were 22ac, 3dn, and 19/12/9.
Steerpike provides this morning's puzzling entertainment…
As he often does, Eccles is filling the Wednesday slot this week. I found this to be towards the harder end of the Indy spectrum, perhaps in no small measure due to the … Read more >>
Excellent puzzle from Basilisk.
I found this rather gentler than some recent puzzles from this setter, but still good fun. Thanks to Tramp. Across 1 WISHFUL THINKING Is fling with hunk at work having unrealistic desires? … Read more >>
Boom. The puzzle commemorates an event from 1970. (i) Wordplay in 22 clues generates an extra letter that is not entered in the grid. These letters, in clue order, provide a name and … Read more >>
Deri is an Independent setter with only one previous crossword I can find on fifteensquared. That was in January when the puzzle had a Led Zeppelin theme. I have computing problems this week … Read more >>
Today's setter is Philistine.
Well, this turned out to be quite the challenge from Aardvark, with some difficult parsing on a few items, and about halfway through, I was not sure that I was going to be able to complete the puzzle. Some fortuitous crossers got me across the finish line.
BOBCAT kicks off the week…
Filbert is very much a regular feature in the Indy these days, and a setter who is capable of ratcheting the difficulty level up and down. This one, as befits a Monday, was … Read more >>
The puzzle may be found at https://www.theguardian.com/crosswords/cryptic/29357.