Category: 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.

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.

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”

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

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

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

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

  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!”

A nice puzzle with some GK you could guess.

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