Category: Daily Cryptic

Solving time: 7:24 I’m away for most of the day so this is posted early and I won’t see comments for about 18 hours. Wondering what Jimbo will think of this one, as the religion … Read more “Times 24457”

Solving time 15 minutes A very easy puzzle with no real talking points. The use of RETE is perhaps obscure but it is used from time to time. As it’s such a bland puzzle, I … Read more “Times 24,456 Do I Get A Card From The Queen?”

Solving time: 38 minutes Music: Mahler, Symphony #9, Klemperer/New Philharmonia I felt confident after solving the first few I looked at, only to get a bit bogged down. The top right went in quickly enough, … Read more “Times 24455 – Why was The Citizen angry at Bloom?”

I’ve just tackled the three archive puzzles that were made available with the solutions to the three that have already been blogged, and can report that I found the 1940 puzzle (No. 3,104 from 2 … Read more “Advance Notice of Report on Puzzle 3,104 (2 Feb. 1940)”

Solving time: 20 mins Two clues, 1ac (FORWARD) and especialy 1dn (FRISIAN), took up at least half of my time on this. The alternative spelling at 1dn was the main reason, though I should really … Read more “ST 4366 (Sun 31 Jan) – Frisian battle”

Solving time: 11.53 This was one of those maddening puzzles where I solved all but one clue (3 ac, in this case) quickly and was left gazing at that one blankly for what seemed like … Read more “Times Crossword 24453”

What a good miss! If yesterday’s puzzle were published today, I would be in trouble. Yes, kororareka, I do sympathise as I took nearly an hour to complete. Fortunately the yoyo does swing back and … Read more “Times 24452 – Perfect & Exquisite”

Solving time: 90 minutes give or take I foolishly volunteered to swap with Peter so that Monday’s anniversary blog would be worthy of worldwide gaze and now I find I must pay the price. I … Read more “Times 24451 – A Musical Mulligatawny”

16:12; to be precise, that was the time at which I stopped the clock, believing everything was answered and entered correctly, albeit with a certain amount of wordplay left to be explained to myself as … Read more “Times 24,450 – Bridging a gap?”

Solving time: I stopped the clock at 30 minutes with just over half the puzzle completed. Firstly, apologies for posting this a lot later than I’d intended. I had a couple of visits to the … Read more “Times Crossword 3,103 of 1 February 1940 celebrating (?) the Crossword’s 80th Birthday”