The lower half of this went in smoothly, but I was delayed a while with a few clues near the top where the setter had misled me.
Month: August 2023
Times Quick Cryptic No 2452 by Alex
One at the gentle end of the scale from Alex today, as shown by my time of 9:07.
Times Cryptic 28670
I found this quite easy to solve but several clues required some careful thinking through when I came to write the blog.
Quick Cryptic 2451 by Joker – Triple Malt
Nothing unfair or too difficult here but not many write-ins and I had to go through the effort of parsing most answers.
Monthly Club Special No 20274 – July 2023
It’s that time of the month again – the usual entertaining dive into remote corners of the dictionary and inventive wordplay that is the magic of the Monthly Club Special.