I found this mostly straightforward
Month: April 2025
Mephisto 3370 – …or the Mad Hatter’s tea party!
I have to admit I found this rather tricky. Unusual vocabulary and tough wordplay combine to make this one difficult to finish….
Sunday Times Cryptic No 5157 by Dean Mayer — ¡Viva Panamá!
This was a spring zephyr—really a breeze—still quite entertaining for all of the ease.
Quick Cryptic no 2955 by Corelli
Another absolute gem from the store of puzzles left us by Richard Rogan
Times Jumbo Cryptic No 1722 – 22 March
I don’t remember much about solving this pleasant Jumbo but doing the blog, though, reminded me that it contains a number of witty definitions and a couple of pieces of clever wordplay. Nice one. Thank-you setter.
Times Cryptic 29190 – Sat, 29 March 2025. In italics, you say?
Mostly straightforward.
Times 29195 – you break it when your pleasure serves
Quite a few references to ‘surrender’ today, so I take that as an offer of a truce. It was certainly more like a gentlemanly duel than all out war.
Times Quick Cryptic No 2954 by Dangle
Today we have just the second Quick Cryptic by Dangle… and what a great Quick Cryptic it is.
Fortnightly Weekend Quick Cryptic. This time it is Sawbill’s turn to provide the extra weekend entertainment. You can find the crossword here
29194 The Maddening Crowd
I’d like to think that the high proportion (so far) of single error entries indicates that we have a clue that is capable of sustaining more than one answer, the sort where if you … Read more “29194 The Maddening Crowd”
Times Quick Cryptic No 2953 by Jalna
Another fair-to-middling puzzle, again with a couple of trickier bits.