Category: Daily Cryptic

A relatively straightforward Monday offering

Lovely surface readings and enough tricky wordplay to keep the cogs whirring.

  It is possible that my view of this one is coloured by the discovery that I’m never going to win a spelling bee, the apparent disability nullifying what may yet prove to be a … Read more “29086 You don’t have to say you love me.”

For some reason it took me a while to get into this one, solving mostly from the bottom and not being totally convinced a couple of clues really work.

Not a particularly speedy solve for me, but I enjoyed this.

I found this puzzle a bit difficult, and felt like I was working at the extremes of my skill level.

20:02. It was that sort of puzzle, where clue after clue I would ask myself, “Is that a thing?”, and eventually answer, “I guess that’s a thing.”.

Time taken: 14:19.

A rather curious puzzle, the shorter clues were more of a struggle than the longer ones.

A good mix of clues with one notable exception.