Independent 9,376 by Raich

This crossword from Raich is to the usual high standard that we have come to expect from him. All the clues seem to me to be neat and uncontroversial with good surfaces, and the theme is something you don’t really need to know in order to solve the crossword, which is as it should be.

Raich always seems to appear on Tuesdays, which I find a little hard to understand. I wouldn’t say this was a doddle, but it was much easier fare than the sort of stuff we often get on a Tuesday, a day which sometimes competes with Thursday for the title of ‘most difficult day’.

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Another Anniversary!

Another year has passed and again we have reached the anniversary of the first blog being posted on Fifteensquared – this time it’s the 10th. So, what has been achieved during the last … Read more >>

Everyman 3655

Mainly charades, anagrams and insertions this morning.  Which for an entry-level puzzle is just as it should be.       Abbreviations cd  cryptic definition dd  double definition (xxxx)*  anagram anagrind = anagram … Read more >>