Category: Daily Cryptic

Plenty to chew over after the fact, since a few (especially downs) went in on checkers and without fully understanding the wordplay. By no means an all-weekender, nevertheless.

Time: 23:56 Not especially difficult, though younger viewers might be challenged by the featured entertainers and some rather odd vocabulary. Our setter seems to be particularly fond of things going backwards – I’ve counted 8 … Read more “29494 Bottles on the doorstep.”

Hello again. This crossword I found quite hard, although now I come to do the blog I’m not absolutely sure why…

I lost a lot of time here over two answers entered incorrectly.

This should have been rather easy, but after racing through about two-thirds I became most thoroughly stuck, and could just not see some very simple clues.

14:55. As the SNITCH would have it, we’ve had milder Fridays lately, compared to the last several months.

Time taken: 20:21

More concise and clear cluing on a Wednesday provides us with a short and sweet midweek offering.

I found this very hard in places.

A number of unknowns and vaguely-heard-ofs made this a much stiffer test than one normally is given on a Monday.