A more straightforward Wednesday job than usual, with nicely written surfaces.
Author: piquet
Times 28899 – gardener’s world.
Some inspired work here from our setter, misdirecting me several times.
Times 28893 – cracking the egg
A mixed bag, I thought, a bit of a curate’s egg perhaps, this one.
Times 28887 – Who’s Willie?
A rapid romp though this one, with just a couple of tricky ones.
Times 28881 – talk of Kings, but no cabbages.
A neat if relatively straightforward puzzle, with nothing to scare our equine companions.
Times 28875 – below the snow line.
If completing a difficult cryptic crossword is like climbing a mountain, I thought this one was not testing us beyond the foothills.
Times 28869 – education by crossword.
A ream of unusual words in this one, covering the gamut of art, science and literature to test your GK as well as solving skills.
Times 28863 – crossword engineering
more mechanical than cerebral.
Times 28857 – hence the penguin.
Nothing frightening here, with a Latin and Italian flavour.
Times 28851 – what the Romans did for us.
An entertaining puzzle which I finished but struggled to explain.