Category: Daily Cryptic

Possibly, a good one in terms of constructions for those contemplating a move to the main cryptic from the Quickie, but with some tricky vocab. So, don’t despair if you have a go, but can’t lick it!

A treat for those who like their Friday puzzles solvable, and their blogs brief.

  18 minutes precisely, taking time to make sure I’d correctly interpreted the wordplay, which varied between the bizarre and the really quite easy. A couple of celebrities put in an appearance, one living, one … Read more “29326 Not from down under, then…”

Another reasonably gentle, enjoyable Wednesday.

An enjoyable solve.

Here we have a typical Monday offering, which should not prove very challenging for most of our regular crew.

A rollercoaster of crossword-solving emotions today.

Time taken: 10:00 on the dot! Although there are a few Americanisms in the grid, I was not on the wavelength of my adopted country.

Very pleasant puzzle today, nothing contentious or too tricky, and some nice anagrams.

Much of this was straightforward but I needed aids for one answer so it counts as a DNF.