No extra coffee needed today.
Month: October 2024
Times 29044: Inside a puzzle it’s too dark to read
Time taken: 11:03, with at least four minutes head-scratching over 1 down!
Times 29043 – stretched to the limit
Usually I admire crosswords which require a few leaps of the imagination to get to the answers, but…
Quick Cryptic No 2802 by Oink
I found this a fairly gentle offering from Oink.
QC 2801 by Hurley
16:11, I struggled with both the long down clues, which made the solve slower than it should have been.
Times Cryptic 29042
Solving time: 22 minutes, one of my fastest ever times for a 15×15! It’s rather odd that following on from the Quick Cryptic I blogged yesterday which went a bit OTT with 6 pure … Read more “Times Cryptic 29042”
Times 29041 – Include me out
I wasn’t overly keen on this crossword, though I like to think I am generally easy to please.
Times Quick Cryptic 2800 by Trelawney
About as fast as things normally get for me.
Mephisto 3344 – Yes, about that fish you mentioned…..
This Mephisto did take a while. I was off to a good start on Saturday night, but then didn’t come back until Tuesday, when many of the answers suddenly became obvious.
Sunday Times Cryptic No 5131 by Robert Price — lies on TV?!
Some tasty stuff served up here, and it all went down fairly easy.