Category: Daily Cryptic

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.

Try as I might, I couldn’t tame this puzzle, even though it was certainly no beast. By the end, I felt like a Californian firefighter trying to quench the flames with the non-existent water of … Read more “Times 29125 – Hoosier thunked it?”