Category: Daily Cryptic

42:10 I had to check I was doing the right puzzle to begin with: it’s been that long since 1ac went straight in on a Friday. The clues seemed to get more and more difficult … Read more “Times 29231”

  My 22.36 suggests, accurately, that I found this quite chewy, even if, with the exception of one abomination, I didn’t stumble over any words not found in my crossword lexicography. There was the hint … Read more “29230 Come on you Squares!”

Another fine Wednesday outing, with some tricky parsing.

I didn’t find this difficult but there were a few tricky words or meanings and wordplay that needed extra care.

This was not quite a standard Monday puzzle, although the highly skilled solvers p0lished it off easily enough.   The answers were not obscure, but some of the cryptics required specific knowledge that not everyone might have.

DNF. I wish I had been a little more up for a challenge as stiff as this — I’ve been waiting for a puzzle like this for weeks.

Time taken: 7:51. I was pretty quickly on the wavelength of the setter, and the early solvers have some pretty slick times (at the time of starting the blog I’m sitting at #3, that will … Read more “Times 29224 – Infinite Jest”

Ah, what a pleasant puzzle, with quite a few apt and witty surfaces! Bravo, setter.

There’s quite a lot here by way of tricky answers and wordplay, some of which I have not met before.

I found this a tad harder than your average Monday, with two clues I can’t fully parse.