Some tough clues at 1ac, 5dn and LOI 16ac held me up and I ended up taking 12 minutes. I suspect that newer solvers may struggle – but I hope to be proved wrong.
Month: May 2022
Times Cryptic 28304
My solving time was 28 minutes. A grid containing 7 zeds and a double-helping of PIZZA might suggest there’s something special going on, but if there is I’ve failed to spot it.
Times 28303 – I have found it…..now what?
This was a an outdoor deck solve, so no music – the weather here in Connecticut is very nice. The puzzle did not particularly impress me – there are just too many rather imprecise equivalents and sloppy usages.
Times Quick Cryptic 2145 by Tracy
Hi all. Tracy is a setter who can be relied upon to produce entertaining and perfectly sound easier-end puzzles. If I say that there is nothing to complain about and that the clues read smoothly it might sound like damning with faint praise. But, rest assured, I am praising.
Times Cryptic Jumbo 1556 – large, friendly letters
Hello one and all. This is my first blog on the new site and because of the timing of these things I’m the only blogger who didn’t get the chance to do a parallel run while this site was in development and the old site was still going. So this could all go horribly wrong
Sunday Times 5008 by Robert Price
11:13. I really enjoyed this puzzle, and writing the blog up it was striking how simple many of the clues are. It’s a real model of concise elegance.
Mephisto 3221 – Tim Moorey
Greetings barred-grid fans! I had a few struggles with this one, particularly in the bottom right hand corner, where I think I was looking too hard for a pop culture or sport reference that Tim … Read more “Mephisto 3221 – Tim Moorey”
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Times Cryptic No 28296 – Saturday, 21 May 2022. I spy with my little eye …
I spy with my little eye … many things starting with “i”: islands, the “i” newspaper, i=electrical current and maybe more. We also had some literary references. Some challenging vocabulary. Overall, not harder than your usual Saturday, I thought.
Quick Cryptic 2144 by Mara
One for the anagram fans, this was pretty straightforward and workmanlike.