Category: Daily Cryptic

Plenty of gentle clues today, with the odd sting in the tail.

I found myself stuck on several clues but got there in the end.

Overall, I’d have to say this is pretty straightforward

Eventually got into it and, I’m please to report, appreciated every minute.

Time: 20:02, taking a while to make sure I had my last in at 7a right. A real mix of slang from various places and ages and one answer (at the bottom) that floored a … Read more “29566 We’re gonna score one more than you.”

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.