Category: Daily Cryptic

It was such a pity not to finish this fabulous puzzle correctly because I felt outsmarted from the start but chipped away and still fell short.

  18.33 Most of this I found relatively straightforward, and the geographical and literary references were known to me, even if I misremembered the nationality of the writer at 4. Where I hit a bit … Read more “29278 Not the end of the world.”

Entertainment of a fairly gentle kind, this week.

A little more variety in the clue construction would have made this more interesting.

While I did solve this puzzle fairly promptly, there were some rather tricky cryptics.  Fortunately, regular solvers don’t have to dive in the parsing for every clue – that task is reserved for the blogger.

29:56, perhaps a bit overblown, as the puzzle felt a bit gentler than the time suggests. I’m sitting here at a restaurant with two fellow NYC puzzlers, solving while sipping a martini and chatting idly. I really enjoyed this puzzle, although my tablemate just grimaced at 26 down, for what that’s worth.

Time taken: 10:37. I think this one is on the trickier side, as a lot of the early times are pretty close to mine, and I’m surprised. I went out tonight to celebrate a promotion, … Read more “Times 29272 – Shtricky Thurshday”

A pleasant Wednesday challenge.

Mostly straightforward.

Nothing too difficult, I think. A little bit of this, and a little bit of that.