This puzzle had one brilliant clue after another. Unfortunately, that does not make for easy solving, and I was not really at my best. The mechanical methods you can use to solve an easy Quickie have to go out the window here.
Month: December 2024
Sunday Times 5142 by Dean Mayer
7:06. Not a difficult puzzle, but an absolute delight.
Mephisto 3355 – Robert Teuton
Greetings, barred-grid fans!
Quick Cryptic 2865 by Wurm
A toughie from Wurm, or was it just me?
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Times Cryptic Jumbo 1705 – 7 December 2024. Smooching and semi-nudity
Hi everyone. Coming up with the answers took me comfortably inside the hour but I had left myself an unusually large number of empty single squares signalling the need to go back and parse fully. It felt like there was a sense of fun and playfulness here, which I appreciated. Thanks setter!
Times Cryptic 29100 – Saturday, 14 December 2024. Sex, drugs, rock ‘n roll …
… and all of that in just one clue!
Quick Cryptic 2864 by Joker
Narcotic masquerade
Times Cryptic No 29105 — You can’t win ’em all
DNF. I was so absurdly off the wavelength here, there’s very little I can say. I labored to fill in as many squares as I could, but in the end, there were three clues I couldn’t get.
Times 29104: Trickyish Thursday?
Time taken: 14:34