Category: Daily Cryptic

Not difficult, but perfectly pleasant.

Disappointed to find a pink square after my efforts to get this difficult but entertaining puzzle solved.

  I found this rather fun, and thought I was quicker than my 18.08. I definitely slowed towards the SE, with the specialist field and the steel proving elusive despite some pretty kind cluing, and … Read more “28930 THE [squiggly bit] TIMES”

Another pleasant but undemanding Wednesday puzzle.

I found this hard

This one was certainly not that difficult, and I started  fairly quickly, and then got to biffing answers, hoping for a good time.   Unfortunately, my biffing skills suddenly failed me, and I had a hard time getting back into cryptic mode to clean up the extended SE.

32:09. Well it is a British puzzle, after all! Needed to take my time with several particularly UK-centric answers, which led to a slower solve. But a great puzzle overall, I thought, for a Friday. Some of these clues are among the finest I’ve seen.

Time taken: 19:43, and once I limped to the finish there was one horrible typo.

I enjoyed this one in 25 minutes, although a few of the definitions merit some pedantic discussion for accuracy.

An enjoyable and absorbing solve