Category: Daily Cryptic

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

I seemed to click with this one.

  17.58, but as I was going through this write up, I was increasingly convinced that it should have been quicker. Lots of clearly telegraphed first, last and middle letters, and a compendium of very … Read more “29338 End of a (brief) era.”