Author: rolytoly

Lovely puzzle from Mara full of imagination.

Fun puzzle today with some very nice clues, in what seems to be Marty’s first puzzle in almost exactly a year.

Gentler than the last couple of days…

I found this a touch on the easy side of average difficulty.

A toughie today from Hurley giving me my first DNF in a while.

A typically fine puzzle from Felix, pitched a touch on the tricky side with a bonus Nina for the idle.

Tricky enough today from Wurm that took me a couple of minutes over target. Lots of very effective misdirection sent me completely the wrong way on quite a number of clues.

I found this quite tricky to finish off: I had four clues left at the 6 minute mark, and took another 4:30 for the 11d-13ac and 6d-19ac crossers.

A fun mix of clues today that took me just over the 10 minute mark, thanks to two minutes at the end spent trying to think of homophones of reptiles at 11d – there was some elusive (or perhaps illusive) caiman type creature that remained on the tip of my tongue. Good stuff – many thanks to Breadman!

How nice to be in our lovely new surroundings! Not the easiest today from Wurm, but with lots of effective misdirection and a broad range of clues it was very satisfying – even the anagrams seemed particularly well-constructed. I was left staring at 16ac for a while at the end which took me to 11 minutes. Many thanks to Wurm, and of course to everyone involved in creating such a great new home.