Category: Daily Cryptic

This puzzle was pretty easy, typical Monday fare, but there was a sting in the tail that I will deal with in due course.    I was more than half done shortly after the seven-minute mark, but the last two took nearly as long.

52:18, which sadly included a fifteen-minute struggle to get the last two clues. I nearly gave up, but I’m nothing if not persistent. Quite a good and challenging puzzle, in my opinion.

Time taken: 11:36

A mixed bag of the easy, smooth and obscure this week.

A very enjoyable solve but some of the parsing beat me until I came to write the blog.

I threw in the towel after ten minutes tussling with 4 down

About as straightforward as Fridays come.

Time: 14:58 This didn’t feel much like a Tricky Thursday with most of my answers suggesting themselves readily from some kind and economical cluing, never more than two lines of print. There’s really only one … Read more “29506 True, I talk of dreams”

Hello again. This crossword I thought was rather easier than average, though with the usual couple of clues I have had trouble parsing…

My fastest solve for a very long time.