Greetings, barred-grid fans.
Month: August 2024
Quick Cryptic 2757 by Joker
One for the anagram-averse solver…
Times Cryptic Jumbo 1686 – ton up
Unless I’m very much mistaken this is my 100th Jumbo blog. I knocked off this enjoyable puzzle comfortably within an hour and rather liked the preponderence of idiomatic phrases…
Times Cryptic 28992 – Saturday, 10 August 2024. Cute as a button.
Lots of clues struck me as having a novel flavour, and 24ac is superb.
Quick Cryptic 2756 by Wurm
Barking up the wrong cul-de-sac
Times 28997 – scotch’d the snake, not kill’d it
A bit of a mixed bag, in my opinion.
Times 28996 – in which I stink
Time taken: 10:11 but with a very silly typo in 14 down!
Times Quick Cryptic 2755 by Teazel
Teazel teases.
Times 28995 – stretching the eyebrows?
A pleasant enough puzzle with nothing to cause undue delay, but…
Quick Cryptic No 2754 by Lupa
One that I found harder than most, despite there being a fair sprinkling of easy clues.