Category: Daily Cryptic

Brutish, but what a cracker! Lovely misleading surfaces and well-hidden elements, certainly a challenge, and a bit to learn along the way.

  I rather struggled through this, my flow being glacial rather than the pyroclastic referred to in the puzzle. Only that mountain appeared out of the nowhere of my forgettery/never’eardery, and with the crossers even … Read more “29206 Turns out it really is a mountain”

A fun puzzle with a couple of quirky definitions.

One answer missing, so technically a DNF.

I thought this was going to be very difficult, as I struggled to find a clue I could solve.    My second entry into the grid was wrong, so I was not off to a great start.

34:10. After a not-particularly-strenuous week, I wondered if we might be in for a very difficult puzzle.

Time taken: 8:03. I thought this was going to be the a lightning round and a biff-fest, but I had to have a couple of passes at some answers in the bottom half.

A pretty straightforward puzzle with some nice witty surfaces.

Overall  I found this a very enjoyable experience.

I thought this was a lot of fun, covering a broad spectrum of knowledge.