I found this puzzle pretty easy and finished in one sitting. The obscure words were not that obscure, and seemed highly likely What else could a lurdon be?
Day: 18th December 2022
Sunday Times Cryptic No 5037 by Dean Mayer — standing in the smoky haze
This puzzle took me a while. I had to put it aside and return to it repeatedly. It’s probably, objectively, none too easy, but I also had a lot on my mind. Great fun to go back over these finely crafted clues.