Category: Daily Cryptic

Hello again. I found this one about average difficulty, at least by current standards.

One hour over two sessions. Not easy – or was it me?

I seem to have found this puzzle a lot harder than everyone else, but the leaderboard and the SNITCH seem to be surprisingly sparse. 

70 minutes. A puzzle like this, I feel compelled to finish no matter how long it takes — and, well, this one took some time. I fell asleep slightly in the middle, but I don’t think staying awake would have made the puzzle go any quicker.

No time recorded – my laptop decided to crash and I had to get it wiped, so I’m solving and writing this up on an unfamiliar laptop.

If music be the food of lovely crosswords, play on!

Very enjoyable with a few tricky words, meanings and pieces of  wordplay but enough easier clues to keep things moving along. 

In my still somewhat drowsy post-ailment condition, this was just what the doctor ordered

Too good for the likes of me, but I enjoyed the challenge, until I didn’t and gave up. Trusty aids and liberal use of the check feature came to the rescue.

Time: 12:36, by some distance my quickest of the week though it may be the clues just fell nicely for me. The artsy bits should be reasonably well known to regular solvers, though you may … Read more “29434 Keeping it clean”