Category: Daily Cryptic

Time taken: 17:19. There’s a few quicker times than me in, but also a few with errors, so I’m claiming this one to be Tricky Thursday

Concise cluing (particularly with a number of the literals) means the wordplay needs careful attention in today’s puzzle.

I was stuck for too long on some in the NE segment.

I thought this was a fine Monday offering, with a nice mix of clues and accessible vocab

A bit of a tester, I think.

Time: 28:58 Something of a struggle for me, this one, with entries scattered randomly round the grid, rather than steadily solving from 1ac onwards. There’s quite a bit of food and drink in here, but … Read more “29542 True ease in writing comes from art, not chance (Pope)”

Hello again. This crossword I thought was noticeably harder than average.

Not the easiest of Tuesday puzzles be everything was gettable and most of the clues were varied and interesting.

Again, we have a rather easy Monday puzzle, with many of the clues eminently biffable.    I did in fact biff my way through this puzzle, which is probably the best approach as some of the cryptics require a lot of cruciverbal gymnastics. 

34:17, with much time spent on one clue in particular. I found this to be a rather gentle puzzle for a Friday, with many familiar devices. Nevertheless it was a bit sticky, and the SNITCH seems to reflect this.