Well, if you can’t count on an absolute stinker of a tough Friday puzzle on Friday 13th, when can you count on one, I ask you? This was all pretty gentle stuff, add or insert a letter into something and match to a not-remotely-deceitful synonym of the desired answer at the clue’s beginning or end. More Man Friday than Freddy Krueger, really.
Day: 12th May 2022
Times Quick Cryptic No 2133 by Mara
A plethora of anagrams and double definitions from Mara today, my second consecutive blog of a Mara puzzle. I like the dd at 1d, and the device used to drop letters from 16d, and give clues of the day jointly to them. 1a was FOI. Hopefully you will all find this one satisfyingly doable. I don’t have an accurate time as busy doing other things, but I feel this was certainly within my target.
Times 28288 – all welly, no wanging
Time taken: 8:59. Parts of this were tricky, and there were two that I had my fingers crossed for when I hit submit, but they both turned out to be OK.