Category: Daily Cryptic

Solving time : 9 minutes. I shall take my cue from the setter and descibe this Tuesday puzzle as a nice straightforward vanilla puzzle. Nothing wrong with vanilla, say I, though you wouldn’t necessarily want … Read more “Times 23,972 – Yaroo!”

Solving time: 37 minutesAn easy start to the week with nothing particularly tricky. I’d expect to see some superfast times from some solvers.Not at all sure about 27D. Across 1 STAFF,A 5 ROMAN,T,IC 10 UP,SHOT … Read more “23971”

This was another puzzle of two halves. The LH side went in at record pace (for me) at little more than 5 minutes, but most of the RH side caused problems and took 40 minutes or so … Read more “23969 – Wakey, Wakey!!!!!!”

Solving time : 22 minutes. A tale of two halves, the bottom half took me very little time, and I was left with a mostly empty top half. Some guesswork here that I had to … Read more “Times 23968 – together we can take over the world”

Quite a challenging puzzle which took me slightly more than 30 minutes including time to mull over and digest the wordplay; since I knew I had to blog this. Some of the definitions were tricky … Read more “Times 23,967 – Slow Love is not Sweet”

23966 Solving time 21:19 Got quite badly stuck after 7 mins or so with about half this puzzle left to do, but kept on chipping away. The last two groups to succumb were 10/3/5 and … Read more “23,966”

“Train journey into London = 31 mins – I will try hard to complete it during the journey.” I didn’t complete it. The ones I had missing after half an hour were 4A (HAIRSPRING), 12A … Read more “Times 23965”

Solving time : around 25 minutes, with probably ten minutes staring at 6d before making a guess. If you like your crosswords a little bit bonkers, you probably enjoyed this. If this puzzle were human, … Read more “ST 4284 (Sun 6th July 2008) Slightly bonkers”

  Solving time: 12.31 I suspect I made heavy weather of this. Probably lost a minute to pre-blog-debut nerves and another as a result of scribbling the first answer I saw, INSOMNIA, at such speed … Read more “Times Crossword 23963”

Solving time: 12:41 I took far too long to solve the lovely climate change clue at 5D, and so I was working in from the corners. I finished with a number I still needed to … Read more “23,962”