Category: Daily Cryptic

Hello again. I liked this one, not too hard but a bit more chewy than the last couple of days. It has some very neat clues and the unknowns were gettable ones.  What did you … Read more “Times Cryptic 29565 – Another Goodie”

A good mix of complex clues and easy ones.

Here we have a real Monday puzzle, featuring a number of clues that would not be out of place in the easier Quick Cryptics.   I biffed my way through most of it, but upon writing the blog I discovered most of the parsing were fairly straightforward.

20:39. This was mostly gentle, though I spent quite a long time trying to work out the lower-left corner.

Time taken: 9:40. That’s usually enough for me to declare Tricky Thursday, but I was over 10 minutes on both Tuesday and Wednesday, so I don’t think this is the trickiest of the week.

I enjoyed this puzzle with its smooth surfaces; concise wordplay and a couple of lovely clues.

Very enjoyable

What a simply charming start to, not only the week, but also the month!

Slim pickings on the left hand side, but quite quickly broke into the right and finished back where I started in the NW. As usual when I achieve a time I’m happy with, I had several lucky flashes of inspiration (okay, biffs) that then had to be reverse engineered. 

Time: 23:26, though a lot of it felt rather easier on review. There are some very straightforward anagrams, for example. A couple of less familiar words are well signposted. And the clues are fine enough, … Read more “29554 There once was a likeable setter…”