Plain sailing
Month: January 2025
Times Cryptic No 29141 — A disappointing DNF
DNF. Got almost all of these in a very reasonable 25 minutes or so, but got stuck on the last three for an eternity. Eventually made a guess on one, which was wrong (I hadn’t heard of the actual answer), and had to look up the other in the dictionary. Ah well!
Times Quick Cryptic No 2899 by Jalna
This took me 09:10 and so I would say is on the upper end of medium. But then again … I fell headfirst into the setter’s trap at 6d, so you may well have done … Read more “Times Quick Cryptic No 2899 by Jalna”
Times 29140 – a few Thursday Tricks
Time taken: 6:51. I whizzed through this one and was about to declare it Not Tricky Thursday, but then I saw some of the other early times and maybe I was just lucky here.
Times 29139 – clunk click
A puzzle heavy on engineering and light on wit, I thought.
Quick Cryptic No 2898 by Mara
Anagram hats on!
Quick Cryptic 2897 by Orpheus
For me this was a puzzle that was harder to parse than it was to solve just from the definition and crossing letters.
Times Cryptic 29138
Didn’t quite make it…
Times 29137 – All Greek to me
I’m taking a Lunar New Year break, so this will be a concise blog.
Times Quick Cryptic 2896 by Pedro
No major problems for me here, but how did you do?