Another excellent offering from Dean. The surfaces are mostly deadpan, though 20 is pretty funny and 4 seems at first a somewhat nasty joke. The most fun this time may have been had from the CDs and the brilliant (semi-)&lit 12.
Month: May 2022
Minor Enhancements
The site has been open to all for a week now with no significant problems. Hooray! So now we can start thinking of enhancements. Thanks to all who have provided suggestions via the Enhancement Suggestions page or Contact Us Form. Today, two of the most popular that were not too hard to do have been introduced…
Times Cryptic Jumbo 1555 – 7 May 2022
Hello everyone. This felt like a very well balanced puzzle in terms of difficulty: the distribution of filled answers stayed even as I solved, and my pace remained steady. All very enjoyable too. Thanks setter!
Times Cryptic No 28290 – Saturday, 14 May 2022. Summer’s coming …
A cocktail, a light novel, a tropical island or Spanish dance. I definitely got the impression the setter might be thinking of a summer getaway. My LOI was 4A, which jumped out when I found the right French city. Overall, good fun!
Times 28,295: All Blogs Fed And Ready To Fly
This was quite good, quite good. I got off to a quick enough start but then took an inordinately long time to see the likes of 12ac and 5dn. Lots of fun &lits and high … Read more “Times 28,295: All Blogs Fed And Ready To Fly”
Times Quick Cryptic 2139 by Teazel
Today’s Quick Cryptic from Teazel is typically teazing with one or two tricky bits, including a couple of clever cryptic definitions. It helps to know your card games, operetta composers and South American geography, which I do – finishing in 5:08. I had a rare (for me) MER at 4D – was I right to twitch the eyebrows? Whatever, it was good fun. Thank-you Teazel. How did you all get on?
Times Quick Cryptic No 2138 by Wurm
How nice to be in our lovely new surroundings! Not the easiest today from Wurm, but with lots of effective misdirection and a broad range of clues it was very satisfying – even the anagrams seemed particularly well-constructed. I was left staring at 16ac for a while at the end which took me to 11 minutes. Many thanks to Wurm, and of course to everyone involved in creating such a great new home.
Times 28294 But everyone knows it’s unnavigable.
“That may be, but we came down it though, didn’t we, Charlie? And in the African Queen”. Rather a gentle puzzle I thought, free from treacherous rapids and sticky muddy bits.
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Times Quick Cryptic 2137 by Tracy
Only the first if these was unknown to me, and was consequently my LOI. Otherwise another solid and gettable puzzle from Tracy.