Category: Daily Cryptic

I found it a very enjoyable and satisfying experience – suitably Mondayish but with one or two trickier bits.

Quite accessible, continuing the run of off-and-on Friday puzzles, according to the SNITCH.

  This felt brisker than my 19.34 might indicate, but it was an engaging time spent, with quite a lot on my last two in. Plenty of quirks, some slightly dodgy, definitions and allusions, and risqué … Read more “28942 Our survey says: completed at a cantur”

Lots of inventive and well disguised definitions in today’s offering.

This was one of the easiest 15×15 puzzles to solve and blog that I can remember.

I was going great guns, and I had three-quarters of this one finished in 15 minutes, when a mini-Mephisto broke out in the SE quadrant.

DNF is an understatement.

Time taken: 14:02. Though I was initially taken aback by the size of the grid, which appeared much larger on my screen than I am used to. Not sure if there was a site update … Read more “Times 28396 – size matters?”

Another middle of the road puzzle with nothing much to argue about.

I felt I did quite well with this