Category: Daily Cryptic

Solving time: 43m30sI don’t have much time this morning, so a very quick write-up follows. I haven’t checked everything, so feel free to correct any mistakes. Also there are a couple where I don’t understand … Read more “23803”

I found this one much easier to complete than to explain. It took me about 40 minutes but I was rather distracted by the number of answers going in that I couldn’t fully justify at the … Read more “23801 – Hay ho!”

I found this quite an easy puzzle – Solving time 16 mins (very fast for me for the Times). * = anagram < = reversed ACROSS1 KA PUT – Ka, slightly obscure, Egyptian vital force, … Read more “23,800”

Solving time 6:47 Few problems with this puzzle on a day which is effectively Monday. Happy New Year to all. Across 1 ROTIS=riots*,SERIE(s) 9 (c)HECK(L)ER 10 PUBLISH – Cryptic def., ref. “publish and be damned” … Read more “23,799 – easy enough”

Solving time : 30 minutes I bid you welcome to 2008 from a still drowsy Dorset. This is an easy puzzle to start the year.I wish you all good solving in the new year, but … Read more “Times 23,798 Lang May Your Lum Reek”

Solving time: 1 hour 9 minutes An enjoyable puzzle. I did most fairly quickly, but there were quite a few words I was pretty sure I didn’t know where I had to unravel the wordplay.Quite … Read more “23797 – Foggyweb’s thimble”

Solving time: 14:38 A mistake at 20d held me up for a while and I’m glad I knew the literary reference at 14d and was able to guess 17a without knowing much about the opera … Read more “23,795”

Solving time: 20:02 I found this tough, though all entirely fair. Lots of interestingly constructed clues and witty surfaces. For COD, I’d probably go for the long hidden at 17A. I finished the right hand … Read more “Times 23,794”

Solving time : About 40 minutes. An enjoyable puzzle that didn’t make too many demands on this addled brain when tackled in the early hours before bedtime. Several nice clues, in particular 9, 24 and … Read more “23793 Oooh R!”

Solving time: 41 minutes Mostly ok – it took me a while to get going but then the answers came pretty steadily. I had to think hard to get the wordplay for a few of … Read more “23792 – My heart aches…”