Category: Daily Cryptic

Hi everybody. Most of this flew in, then a few held me up a few minutes, and ultimately I failed on 8a. I don’t have a COD but enjoyed the solve. Thanks setter.

Slow to start (I think I had about 3 answers after 10 minutes), but managed to find a few more accessible clues hidden here and there.

  I did this in 16.23, which indicates that for me it wasn’t too tricky, but I was aware going through that there were words on the fringes of common vocabulary that might cause issues … Read more “28966 You might not catch a lot of these.”

A puzzle I found easier to finish than to explain in full.

Mostly straightforward but I had a MER at a couple of definitions along the way.

I found this a rather easy Monday puzzle, but I did have all the knowledge.   The two long answers should be obvious just from the enumerations and literals, which will give everyone a good start.  

100 minutes for this very hard puzzle! Sunburnt and tired from a day at the beach (it was Independence Day here in the US), I pushed myself to finish this puzzle far beyond what seemed reasonable.

Time taken: 15:18. Yes, it’s Tricky Thursday!

Nothing too tricky in this one, the unusual words can be worked out from the wordplay.

Another inventive and enjoyable puzzle.