Category: Daily Cryptic

50:02. Filling in for Will this week, and was looking forward to getting clobbered by the sort of monsters he usually faces.

  14.41, as I took my time making sure everything was parsed and nothing was going to produce an unwanted pink. There’s one I’m not fully convinced by, which usually means I’ve missed something obvious … Read more “29302 Given an even break.”

Another pleasant but gentle Wednesday, which seems to be the new Monday of late.

An enjoyable puzzle, with many clues not too difficult but still of high quality.

I was able to get many of the answers very quickly, as there are quite a few clues here we have seen before.  Unfortunately, there are also some that require a little thought, and since my cryptic brain was falling asleep I had to struggle.

24:26, with a full six minutes spent on three unches.

Time taken: 8:50. A scan of the early times suggest that this is a more difficult one and I might have gotten lucky with a few familiar phrases and musical terms.

A mild midweek offering, I thought, but enjoyable nonetheless.

I found this quite tough in places

I made rather heavy weather of this, completing it in fits and starts