I didn’t find this one particularly difficult – there are a lot of common words in the answers, even thought some of the clues are a bit obscure. As I recall, I knocked it off in one sitting, taking about 80 minutes.
Day: 11th February 2024
Sunday Times Cryptic No 5097 by Dean Mayer — climbing K2
This surely isn’t “objectively” as hard a puzzle as it seemed to me last Saturday night. It would be extremely hyperbolic to call it a “Savage Mountain,” but it was a worthy challenge that I survived unscathed.