Category: Daily Cryptic

I’m taking a Lunar New Year break, so this will be a concise blog.

A very interesting, if challenging, puzzle.

  I found a lot to like in the puzzle, not least a comfortable time of 17.02. Pretty well all through our setter has paid attention to the surface readings of the clues, and there … Read more “29134 Hold very tight please! Ting ting!”

I took an age to do and parse this beauty; perhaps it was me having a dim day, so I’ll be interested to see the SNITCH.

I found this very tricky.

Another easy Monday; I went quite fast for a while, and then got just a little stuck at the end.   I got the two long ones quickly, but the bottom row gave trouble, and I biffed a wrong answer for the final across clue before seeing what the answer must be.

A roughly average time for me, but it felt harder while solving.

Time taken: 10:47, but for the third day in a row I submitted and found I had made a silly mistake!

A witty romp indeed, nothing to slow down the gallop through this fine but undemanding puzzle.

A pleasant 12ac puzzle.