Category: Daily Cryptic

Time taken 6:29

This was pretty much an ordinary Monday puzzle, with a few clever constructions that are starting to creep in, along with one or two rather loose constructions.

30 minutes, more or less. I solved this puzzle on the regular Times site (not the Crossword Club), so it wouldn’t accept my puzzle as correct. After checking every answer I finally used the Check Puzzle feature and discovered my “mistake”.

All this aside, I thought this was a delightful puzzle. Some fabulous definitions.

Time taken: 14:02. The wordplay in this puzzle is intricate – I smacked myself when I saw some of the answers, but the early solvers are making heavy weather of it!

Our final Semi-final puzzle from the Championship.

The music, the moment…

I felt this was a little tougher than your average Monday.

Off to a flying start but slowed on the right hand side. Still, easier than others we’ve had this week, and very gentle for Friday.

Time: 25:52, which seems like a long time , but I think, for me at least, the complexities of this one demanded much head scratching and careful pondering. One curiosity, which you’ll see often enough … Read more “29386 Your train (of thought) may be delayed”

This crossword I thought was a little harder than average, with some excellent clues, and a couple I have had significant trouble parsing…