Author: Cedric Statherby

I found this a stiff test, and following my solve I would like to coin a new acronym: BTP, or “Biff Then Parse”.

A puzzle in which your blogger struggled mightily, especially over the parsing.

Yet another puzzle from the back catalogue of Richard Rogan gems, and this one was a real sparkler I thought.

Another new setter, Shay, joins the QC roster and, like some of their recent predecessors, kicks off with what I found was quite a tough puzzle.

A fairly gentle puzzle from Trelawney in the main, but with a couple of clues that I found required more thought

I found parts of this quite tough, both to complete and to fully parse.

Many of us like to keep statistics on our solving times and this post is to allow people to share their experiences of 2024

Jalna ends his year with a classy puzzle of medium difficulty

A rare puzzle from Myles, only his 12th for us I think, and an excellent medium-difficulty challenge.

A tougher puzzle from Jimmy than his previous offerings, and showing quite another side to his character