Category: Daily Cryptic

A fairly gentle Monday offering.

One of the easiest Friday crosswords I can remember.

  I thought I was doing well to get in just under 20 minutes, though I started in rather desultory fashion and spent too long dithering over the emperor, or possibly antique dominion at 5d. … Read more “29062 Not Cole’s law then.”

The second puzzle in the Championship first round, but new to me today.

I found this fairly straightforward. How did you do?

I will admit I thoroughly messed up this puzzle.   I couldn’t read my own handwriting, put the word separators in the wrong place, misidentified the literal, etc, etc.   At the same time, I realized this was a high quality puzzle with a lot of novel wordplay.

This was an excellent puzzle, which I enjoyed bashing my head against at the time, and enjoyed even moreso while writing the blog.

Time taken: 9:53 with an asterisk.

A bit of everything here, with the wordplay, but nothing obscure.

On the easy side, but this was an enjoyable puzzle and quite inventive in places.