Author: Doofenschmirtz

I thought I was in for a real battle here after my first pass through all the across clues resulted in only three answers. Three!

Slow, quick, slow. Harder than average, I think.

A tricky offering from Izetti today, although that may be a tautology. There are some advanced devices that we don’t often see in the quickie and some fairly obscure general knowledge is called for.

Mara having fun with synonyms today.

I found this on the easier end of the scale from Joker, with lots of puns and a refreshing absence of long anagrams.

One on the easier side today, with a theme that – most unusually – I spotted.

Another enjoyable tussle with Joker today. I was speeding along, but then my last three took me a good five minutes.

I found this one from Pedro to be on the harder side, with a fair number of clues that combined multiple elements and needed careful parsing.

My second Joker puzzle in a row, and again I was taken over my target time. But enjoyable and fair.

A typically challenging offering from Joker that took me a little over my target time, but everything seems fair.