I didn’t find this puzzle particularly hard, but I did enjoy it, with its assured control of cryptic devices and a bit of wickedness to some of its choices: I particularly liked the almost invisible … Read more “Times 27,329: Confidence Is A Preference For The Habitual Solveur”
Day: 18th April 2019
Times Quick Cryptic No 1333 by Hurley
Another sub-10-minuter for me at exactly 8 minutes, so easy on the Rotterometer. There is little here to cause any problems to experienced solvers, with a minimum of gentle general knowledge required and the usual … Read more “Times Quick Cryptic No 1333 by Hurley”
Times 27328 – does the setter prefer ODIs or smacky-smacky?
Solving time: 14:36 – a little slower than usual, and today it was some of the anagrams that held me up the longest. I’m the fourth of the seven times in so far, and the … Read more “Times 27328 – does the setter prefer ODIs or smacky-smacky?”