Time taken: 10:47. Was relieved that this came back all-correct, but now I need to research a few pieces of parsing. Hopefully it will all make sense, I relied on wordplay a lot more than … Read more “Times 28840 – spelling agitation”
Month: February 2024
Quick Cryptic 2599 by Felix – off to the chippy with Peter Mandelson
Felix has given us a terrific mixture here.
Times 28839 – pets and pests
Another fun-filled Wednesday, with some tricky parsing but nothing obscure.
Quick Cryptic No 2598 by Trelawney
One at the easier end of the scale which took me a surprisingly long time, for reasons unknown.
Quick Cryptic 2597 by Pedro
It was probably just me but I didn’t find this particularly easy with several less common words and some tricky parsing.
Times Cryptic 28838
Dead easy. I imagine there will be many PBs recorded today as this is a biffer’s paradise!
Times 28837 – At your convenience
An enjoyable, quirky and slightly more difficult than usual Monday offering, where the tricky vocab is helpfully clued.
Times Quick Cryptic 2596 by Oink
Pretty straightforward for me. How did you get on?
Mephisto 3310 – You and me and the porter’s daughters
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.
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.