Category: Daily Cryptic

A tale of two halves, for me. The science bits and the more classic crossword-ese suited me fine, but there was some outstandingly devilish and original clueing going on as well.

  At 20.43, I didn’t find this easy, especially working out all the wordplay as one should when preparing a blog. There’s still a couple of bits, however, where my working out is a bit … Read more “29350 Izzy wizzy, let’s get busy!”

Hello again. This crossword I thought was likeable and not too hard. I particularly liked 22ac, informant of mine, and the cat up a tree at 17dn.

I lost a few moments finding my first in but from then on this was a steady and enjoyable solve.

I tore through this fairly quickly, and it will be a breeze for most experienced solvers.    There were some good clues, but those speeding along with just put in the obvious answer an move on.

23:06, and early SNITCH statistics suggest this is of average difficulty only. Since I don’t get to do many puzzles these days, I was glad to get through one!

Time taken: 12:38. Not quite ready to declare this Tricky Thursday yet, as some of the early times are very fast indeed.

A tricky test with some serious lateral thinking required.

I still had some queries as I started writing the blog but resolved most of them as I went along.

Rather more challenging than a typical Monday