Almost Easter. Guess that’s why. When I solved 17, some time before seeing what was behind the seemingly anodyne 19 that appropriately crosses it, I was flooded with my eternal revulsion at the atavistic notion … Read more “Sunday Times Cryptic 5001, by Dean Mayer — Nailed it!”
Day: 9th April 2022
Times Cryptic No 28254 – Saturday, 4 April 2022. Impeccable performance.
Well done, setter! Clue after clue made me smile. My eye fell first on 20A, which set the tone! Things flowed enjoyably through the SW corner, then the rest of the bottom half. LOI was … Read more “Times Cryptic No 28254 – Saturday, 4 April 2022. Impeccable performance.”
Times Cryptic Jumbo 1547 – 25th March
This was a lovely entertaining Cryptic Jumbo. Just how they should be. A lot of fun with plenty of inventive cluing and witty definitions and wordplay, yet not too difficult, although I see my last … Read more “Times Cryptic Jumbo 1547 – 25th March”