Category: Daily Cryptic

A lot to like in this fairly simple offering

No pushover

  27.24 I freely acknowledge that I was slow through this one, missing the artfully disguised definitions wherever possible and, of course, diligently working out the ways and means of reaching the answers rather than … Read more “28918 Not the sharpest Tool in the box.”

I found this hard to finish without looking stuff up, and not especially enjoyable.

Solving time: 31 minutes

I did not find this particularly difficult, although there were a few tricky bits and never-heard-of answers.   I got enough of the across clues to get started, although the downs did not prove as helpful as they usually do. 

DNF (but close to 90 minutes). I have few words that can express the experience of having wrestled with this puzzle. I found this very, very difficult, barely putting in a single answer in 25 minutes. Perhaps I was just off the wavelength, but I think not. I can’t fathom how the setter was able to hide their meaning so cleverly.

Time taken: 13:56. Tricky one today!

Another Wednesday with nothing to scare even nervous horses.

I found this fairly straightforward.