Category: Daily Cryptic

Since being assigned to this fortnightly duty, I find waking up on alternate Thursdays a pleasant experience as I look forward to solving and blogging. Thank you, Peter B. Today’s puzzle was surprising easy and … Read more “Times 24,440 – Garnishing on a well-cooked dish”

Solving time: 5:34 An easy puzzle for me, probably because there were 5 fairly easy double defs, and some pretty clear anagrams. There are some novel clues here as well as the easy stuff. And … Read more “24439”

19:37, held up by my brain refusing to see the correct definition in a not especially tricky clue, and another solution which seemed so straightforward that I found myself looking for other possibilities that weren’t … Read more “Times 24,438 – that would be an ecumenical matter…”

Solving time: 30mins This was mostly a doddle (for which I am extremely grateful), done whilst watching tennis and cricket on TV, eating breakfast and discussing the weather (43 Celsius yesterday and similar forecast today. … Read more “Times 24437 – And so to bed”

Solving time: 6:30 Some strange ones this week, e.g. 22ac (EXPO), 2dn (UNIT), 7dn (GET THE CHOP), 12dn (GRIM REAPER), 14dn (POST-WAR) and 15dn (SOAP OPERAS); corrections and clarifications welcome. I was held up by … Read more “ST 4363 (Sun 10 Jan) – Poe faced”

This one took 25 minutes which makes it one of the easiest ever on my blogging day so I hope I haven’t made any silly errors. There’s not really much to say about it as … Read more “Times 24435 – Bitter Orang(e) and Home Sweet Home”

Solving time : Well, after 14 minutes I’ve banged the only word I can think of that makes sense with the definition into 1 across. So I may be right or I may be wrong … Read more “Times 24434”

Solving time: 7:54 There’s some quite subtle wordplay in this puzzle – such as the four two-word phrases used in 9, 17, 28, 1D. Still recovering here from the fun of tackling Beethoven 9 in … Read more “Times 24433 – 4 x 2”

SolVing time: 20 minutes I enjoyed this puzzle but was never particularly stretched by it. I found the clue style interesting and was delighted to have no boring poets or authors but instead to be … Read more “Times 24,432 Antithesis meets the last theorem”

Solving time: 45 minutes Music: No music today, watching golf on TV I thought this was going to be a really easy one as I whipped through the top and right side in a few … Read more “Times 24431 – Send in your top 10!”