Category: Daily Cryptic

Solving time: 21:30 Really sorry this is late. Thanks to George for placeholder and for reminding me about it. Therefore done in a rush and pretty thin. Happy to fill it out as people tell … Read more “Times 24,369”

dd = double definitioncd = cryptic definitionrev = reversed or reversalins = insertioncha = charadeha = hidden answer*(fodder) = anagram Quite a run-of-the-mill puzzle today. Nothing very difficult but I could not parse a couple. … Read more “Times 24368 – The Landed Gentry”

If I had an icon with a dunce’s cap, I’d be using it now. Solving time 11 and a half minutes, but including one guess, which turned out, upon analysis for blog purposes, to be … Read more “Times 24,367 – A Religious Education”

Solving time: 35mins I would have been about 10 minutes faster had it not been for the NE corner, which I found to be the only tricky bit, despite a number of things which were … Read more “Times 24366 – “…fast women, slow horses, unreliable sources…””

Solving time: 4 mins for most of it, twice as long again on 17dn (LINIMENT). A decent puzzle with some good clues, plus a couple of strange ones. I got in a right mess with … Read more “ST 4351 (Sun 18 Oct) – Fly in the ointment”

A very lively puzzle that took me far longer than it should have done, around 70 minutes. I’m not sure whether the nursery rhyme references are known universally, nor the bit of slang that’s been … Read more “Times 24364 – Nursery Games”

Solving time : 9 minutes, and that was after a martini, two bottles of wine and after 11pm, so I suspect this is either on the easier side, or the setter is on my wavelength. … Read more “Times 24363 – homesick”

dd = double definitioncd = cryptic definitionrev = reversed or reversalins = insertioncha = charadeha = hidden answer*(fodder) = anagram What a start to my locum duty for Peter B, probably the person who have … Read more “Times 24362 – Peaking for Snowdon”

Solving time : 15 minutes A very straightforward puzzle with no great obscurities or anything particularly complex. A host of double meanings and some rhyming slang. One or two little niggles. I’m looking for help … Read more “Times 24361 Easy-Peasy”

Solving time: 25 minutes Music: None, I was watching the golf playoff in Las Vegas. Congratulations to the first Scottish winner on the US PGA tour in quite a while – Martin Laird. Not terribly … Read more “Times 24360 – Getting hold of a baronet, I……”