Category: Daily Cryptic

46:29 with quite few guesses, one of which I’m still to parse…

  A leisurely 28.07, with quite a lot of it spent fruitlessly looking at one clue which ended up being thrown in regardless. There’s a rare example of a definition in the middle of its … Read more “29218 M’aidez!”

A nice puzzle with some GK you could guess.

I can see  little here to account for my excessive solving time. But how did you do?

I didn’t find this puzzle particularly difficult, as the correct answers were usually evident, but blogging it is another matter.   I have had to correct several misapprehensions while writing the blog.

45:01. I found this hard, and if my suspicions are correct, most UK solvers will not agree with me: I had the distinct feeling that this puzzle required more UK-specific knowledge than most. (Which is quite all right, of course!) I enjoyed many of these clues — even more after I’d taken the time to parse them!

Time taken: 13:25

Plenty to admire in this midweek offering.

I didn’t find this particularly difficult.

Not a tremendous amount of arcane general knowledge required for this one. That combined with generally friendly wordplay puts this in the typical Monday category, I think.