Lots to enjoy in this medium-difficult offering from Felix
Month: May 2023
Times Cryptic No 28601 — Somewhere in the middle
Somehow this was not so hard and not so easy, all at the same time. Many unknowns for me today, but all fair and gettable.
Times 28600: Painted into a corner
Time taken: 10:10, with about a third of that on the bottom left corner, where all the unusual words and traps lay. If you are confident of some of the spellings of the foreign terms … Read more “Times 28600: Painted into a corner”
Quick Cryptic No 2393 by Wurm – you are my everything!
Please let us all know how you got on, and I thank Wurm for his efforts on behalf of us all.
Times Quick Cryptic No 2392 by Trelawney
Lots to like here, although I found this trickier than normal from Trelawney. The three down clues in the NW corner all held out to the very end, as did the storyteller.
Times 28599 – “just one more thing, Ma’am…”
I enjoyed finishing this fun puzzle in 15 minutes.
Times Cryptic 28598
3 minutes over my target half-hour was not too bad for a puzzle that contained several words that one doesn’t see every day or even every week.
Quick Cryptic 2391 by Teazel – Double delight
A few nefarious characters and what may lie in store for them here.
Times 28597 – Woe, woe and thrice woe!
Nice to see a Classical clue to slow down the Bletchley Parkers. More of the same, please, setter!
Times Quick Cryptic 2390 by Beck
This is only Beck’s fourth puzzle, his/her first having appeared last November.