Category: Daily Cryptic

Quite accessible, this one, I think.

Pretty hard. I worked from outside in, and had most of it done in just over 30 minutes. But then I got stuck in the SE, and submitted forgetting to go back to an answer I promised myself to revisit. 

  I got through this in just under 20 minutes, quick for a blogging night when I’m more particular. There are some definitions which are stretchy but always fair, and a particularly aesthetic anagram/indicator combination. … Read more “28870 We have solved the Times at midnight”

A ream of unusual words in this one, covering the gamut of art, science and literature to test your GK as well as solving skills.

I found it quite easy especially in the light of rather too many recent struggles. 

Well, the streak of easy Monday puzzles continues.   I only had to think a little, as most of the answers wrote themselves in, especially after a few checking letters were available.

48:28. Laughably off the wavelength here. Nearly gave up but I had nothing better to do than to pound my brain against these clues until I got every last letter!

Time taken: 10:11. Most of the early starters found this tough going, I made pretty steady progress until hitting the Dickens reference, which I had to piece together from the anagram with all other checking … Read more “Times 28864 – what the Dickens?”

more mechanical than cerebral.

An excellent and interesting puzzle and not too difficult.