Category: Daily Cryptic

A charming and relatively straightforward end to a fairly easy week.

  Completed in 17.36 with no major hold-ups, though the novel may not be on everyone’s reading list. I enjoyed this, especially with some well-worked long anagrams which fell out easily enough, and some witty … Read more “29242 I wish you all joy of the worm.”

A good Wednesday workout, solved from the bottom up.

I made rather heavy weather of this.

These grids with many longer words are often associated with the difficult Friday puzzles, but this is definitely a Monday one.   After getting a few answers, I started to work from the literals and got most of it done very quickly.

DNF, because I needed to look up one clue to finish things off. I found this challenging, and was stuck about halfway through, when thankfully Mr Biff came to my rescue. I’ll need to parse some of these as I write the blog.

Time taken: 10:54. I was held up thinking that this might be a pangram and was hunting for a Q in the last few answers, but it was not to be.

This seemed to be a puzzle with a kind of mid-Atlantic flavour.

I thought at first this was going to be a lot harder than it turned out.

I found the puzzle a bit strange, as it is an admixture of clues suitable for the Quickie with a few that are very  convoluted.     If you just put in the obvious answers, you’ll finish, but you may want to know why the answers are the answers.