Category: Daily Cryptic

Solving time : 23 minutes, which is on the slow side for me, I’m not sure if this is a difficult crossword or just one of those days where I’m not on the same wavelength … Read more “Times 24255: going round in circles twice”

Solving time: 19:00 A good tough puzzle. Assuming others find it equally tough, there was some good judgement from the setter/editor combo here, as a sprinkling of easy clues gave you enough to keep going … Read more “Times 24254”

Solving time : 25 minutes A standard Times cryptic with a levening of slang, cricket, religion, obscure poet and so on. There are no less than five long anagrams. Across 1 CARESS – CARES-S; pet=canoodle … Read more “Times 24,253 Salvage Frogman in Camouflage”

Solving time: 6:10 A pretty good puzzle without too many quibbles, although 17ac confuses me and I may have got the wrong answer. * = anagram, “X” = sounds like ‘X’. Across 1 CORNETTIST; (RENT … Read more “ST 4332 (Sun 7 Jun) – 17A of vitroil”

Solving time: 8.07 This was a straightforward and relatively easy end to the week and I expect there will be some fast times. There was quite a lot of wordplay of the “remove a letter … Read more “Times Crossword 24250”

Solving time: 14:40 I am sure the RMT have good reason for striking, but not having an underground journey disrupts my crosswording. My time may well be better than it would have been as I … Read more “Times 24,249”

Solving time: 18:40 Very slow, but better than yesterday! There was no huge delay for the last two answers (2 and 11), so I’m fairly sure this will simply be tough for everyone. Barring a … Read more “Times 24248 – Grand slammers in the slammer?”

Very similar to my last blogged puzzle – solving time a solid 15 minutes, with a handful of solutions where I wasn’t 100% certain of answers from prior knowledge of the word, but satisfied I … Read more “Times 24,247 – Killer on the Loose?”

Solving time: About 45 mins Mostly quite easy clues with a few that held me up inordinately for no reason that I can attribute to anything other than my own slowness of mind; particularly 23ac, … Read more “Times 24246 – Eyes down for a full, um… house”

This took me the best part of an hour using aids to get me started again after about 15 minutes in the doldrums with only half the puzzle completed. There are no difficult words or particularly … Read more “Times 24244”