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Category: Daily Cryptic

Times 29227 – An Other Monday?

Author   vinyl1Posted on 12th May 2025 at 3:32 AMCategories Daily Cryptic

This was not quite a standard Monday puzzle, although the highly skilled solvers p0lished it off easily enough.   The answers were not obscure, but some of the cryptics required specific knowledge that not everyone might have.

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Times Cryptic No 29225 — Had we but world enough and time

Author   plusjeremyPosted on 9th May 2025 at 3:19 AM9 May 2025Categories Daily Cryptic

DNF. I wish I had been a little more up for a challenge as stiff as this — I’ve been waiting for a puzzle like this for weeks.

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Times 29224 – Infinite Jest

Author   glhPosted on 8th May 2025 at 1:03 AMCategories Daily Cryptic

Time taken: 7:51. I was pretty quickly on the wavelength of the setter, and the early solvers have some pretty slick times (at the time of starting the blog I’m sitting at #3, that will … Read more “Times 29224 – Infinite Jest”

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Times 29223 – he is the eggman, I am the walrus

Author   piquetPosted on 7th May 2025 at 6:52 AM3 May 2025Categories Daily Cryptic

Ah, what a pleasant puzzle, with quite a few apt and witty surfaces! Bravo, setter.

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Times Cryptic 29222

Author   jackktPosted on 6th May 2025 at 1:30 AM3 May 2025Categories Daily Cryptic

There’s quite a lot here by way of tricky answers and wordplay, some of which I have not met before.

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Times 29221 – Ulaca on the Shore

Author   ulacaPosted on 5th May 2025 at 8:01 AM5 May 2025Categories Daily Cryptic

I found this a tad harder than your average Monday, with two clues I can’t fully parse.

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Times 29219 – well, not a stinker

Author   william_j_sPosted on 2nd May 2025 at 7:00 AM2 May 2025Categories Daily Cryptic

46:29 with quite few guesses, one of which I’m still to parse…

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29218 M’aidez!

Author   ZabadakPosted on 1st May 2025 at 1:55 AMCategories Daily Cryptic

  A leisurely 28.07, with quite a lot of it spent fruitlessly looking at one clue which ended up being thrown in regardless. There’s a rare example of a definition in the middle of its … Read more “29218 M’aidez!”

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Times 29217 – rock and rock and roll.

Author   piquetPosted on 30th April 2025 at 7:00 AM30 April 2025Categories Daily Cryptic

A nice puzzle with some GK you could guess.

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Times Cryptic 29216

Author   jackktPosted on 29th April 2025 at 2:02 AM29 April 2025Categories Daily Cryptic

I can see  little here to account for my excessive solving time. But how did you do?

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