Solving time: 5:06 Tuesdays have been tricky recently, but fortunately this run has seemingly come to an end for my first posting. Particularly helpful were the four long answers, three consisting of multiple or hyphenated … Read more “23,440 – Beginner’s luck”
Category: Daily Cryptic
23,439 – Two ports today
Solving time : 1h 46m Ports would have to be my weakest area of general knowledge and I get two of them in my inaugural review; I knew Rotterdam, but Oran was a new one … Read more “23,439 – Two ports today”
23,437 – Aphrodisiacs, slapper and suspender all combining to make this one hard
Solving time :13m 05s I found this one very hard going. No more than two answers entered in the first two minutes, and both of those only thanks to previous experience of very similar devices. … Read more “23,437 – Aphrodisiacs, slapper and suspender all combining to make this one hard”
23,436 – A bad beginning
Solving time : 9:35… … but with one mistake (11A). Otherwise a very enjoyable puzzle. All the clues read well, and there are some really funny ones, especially 1A. Across 1 QUART(O) – because it … Read more “23,436 – A bad beginning”
23,435 – where did they go wrong?
Solving time 7:41 This is the middle one of the three puzzles from the second preliminary session of the championship. It’s fairly easy for a championship puzzle – 64% solved it within the time limit … Read more “23,435 – where did they go wrong?”