This one was not too bad, although a bit harder than Paul’s usual. After much struggle, I kept saying I should have seen that one right away.
Month: January 2025
Sunday Times Cryptic No 5147 by David McLean — mystery equations
This one took some work!
Quick Cryptic no 2895 by Trelawney
A fairly gentle puzzle from Trelawney in the main, but with a couple of clues that I found required more thought
Times Cryptic Jumbo No 1712 – 11th January
Another luxury Jumbo for a second week in a row – a class above the ordinary with more richly flavoured wordplay and entertaining surfaces in places, but still not too difficult.
Times Cryptic 29130 – Sat, 18 Jan 2025.
Right, said Fred … no, not the Bernard Cribbins song.
Times 29135 – not for the faint of heart
A very interesting, if challenging, puzzle.
Times Quick Cryptic No 2894 by Oink
A Quick Crossword of about average difficulty from Oink today,
Fortnightly Weekend Quick Cryptic. This time it is my turn to provide the extra weekend entertainment. You can find the crossword, entitled “Some Hae Meat”, here.
29134 Hold very tight please! Ting ting!
I found a lot to like in the puzzle, not least a comfortable time of 17.02. Pretty well all through our setter has paid attention to the surface readings of the clues, and there … Read more “29134 Hold very tight please! Ting ting!”
Times Quick Cryptic No 2893 by Joker
Around average difficulty.
Times 29133 – as tough as a two-dollar steak?
I took an age to do and parse this beauty; perhaps it was me having a dim day, so I’ll be interested to see the SNITCH.