The usual cavalcade of extreme ingenuity, with not a duffer among these clues. COD has got to be the truly exceptional 20ac, managing to seamlessly mesh Australian avifauna with the old vicarage in Grantchester. But … Read more “Monthly Club Special 20,260: Surprisingly Chaste Lord Archer Vegetating”
Day: 1st June 2022
Times Quick Cryptic 2147 by Corelli
A little tricky, possibly because I did not solve 1ac on first glance, I don’t know Kent geography well enough, and had never heard of the tribe.
Times 28305 – a Kosovan conman? A Montenegrin mountebank?
This was a first-class puzzle with some devious misdirection and at times witty clueing; it took me around 35 minutes, with the SE segment the last to fall.