Category: Daily Cryptic

Solving time: 4:25 Pretty good this week with the anagrams at 21ac and 4dn being my favourite clues. There was some difficult vocabulary, of which I didn’t know or couldn’t remember 29ac (MASSETER, a muscle … Read more “ST 4368 (Sun 14 Feb) – Muscle memory”

Solving time: 8.10 This seemed like a fairly easy workout, with a handful of long anagrams opening the grid up nicely. My stupidity of the day was a failure to read a multi-word clue word … Read more “Times Crossword 24465”

I like it when the first across clue in a puzzle is so solveable as this gives the first letters of so many down clues. So it was today and I quickly breezed through the … Read more “Times 24,464 – First Cut Is The Deepest”

22:45 for this – the hard one which Jimbo has been waiting for. Tackled late last night so maybe I wasn’t in my sharpest form, but 27 was my first answer, with 13 following swiftly, … Read more “24463”

12:26 here, which felt as if it should have been quicker (I suspect some sprinters will clock in at half that time), with not too much specialist knowledge or deep analysis required. Still, the daily … Read more “Times 24,462”

Solving time: 45 minutes with one remaining blank I’m on the minutes this morning, so you’ll have to excuse the perfunctory comments. I fell at the last hurdle; that being 11ac. All I could think … Read more “Times 24461 – Not one for the οἱ πολλοί”

Solving time: 4:24 (solved online) A solid puzzle without too much difficulty, although I wasted time on 18ac. There are one or two unusual constructions, e.g. 19dn, as well as a hatful of double definitions … Read more “ST 4367 (Sun 7 Feb) – Spanner in the works”

All but four clues in the SW corner (14, 18, 21 and 25) were solved within 30 minutes but I’m afraid these added another 15 minutes to my time. I rather enjoyed this puzzle but … Read more “Times 24459 – In the wee small hours…”

Solving time : I didn’t get a chance to do this in one sitting, it was three or four short breaks during a rehearsal for a Valentine’s Day show. I suspect there’ll be some fast … Read more “Times 24458 – bob, racecar, tan gnat, taco cat!”

Solving time: 11:54 I expect I’m not the only person who found this far simpler than No. 3103 which I reported on here. However, since I didn’t know beforehand that it was going to be … Read more “Times Crossword 3104 (2 Feb 1940) (and solutions to Crosswords 9282 and 15440, with a few comments)”