Category: Daily Cryptic

I was going along quite nicely until I got to 19 down. Thereafter, I got no further. An early look at the leaderboard shows the expected fast times. I wonder how many others were nonplussed. … Read more “Times 28897 – Lib Lab”

I am very tired and threw the towel in with 13dn outstanding and a couple unparsed.

  I managed this in exactly 18 minutes, on a par with the rest of the week so far, but I suspect some of the esoterica within will slow some solvers down. I was thrown, … Read more “28894 Cum On Feel the Noize”

A mixed bag, I thought, a bit of a curate’s egg perhaps, this one.

I made quite heavy weather of this but it was enjoyable and inventive.

Not your average Monday puzzle, I would have to say.   Lots of novel constructions, and answers, made this a bit of a challenge.   I had a hard time getting started, but once I had a few checking letters I was able to finish in a decent time, a bit below my average according to the SNITCH.  I did find the puzzle very enjoyable.   

35:27. Distinctly off the wavelength here, and I had the sense throughout that this was a particularly British puzzle.

Time taken: 12:11 – and about  third of that on the last two answers! I had to piece together the measurement and the war zone, and I was relieved to find that those turned out … Read more “Times 28888 – … and travel”

A rapid romp though this one, with just a couple of tricky ones.

Many of these clues have brilliant surface readings.