Category: Daily Cryptic

Solving time: 40:10 A bit of a challenge that had me looking a thing or two up – note that my time for this is more than Peter’s cumulative time at the recent championship. I … Read more “Times 23727/almost completely die”

Solving time : 51 mins Writing this very late – sorry. I have spent two long days working in the offices of an ICT company, but Livejournal is on their pornography black list and so … Read more “23726”

Solving time: 6:51 Very quick blog for this, as I’m sure noone is remotely interested given today’s main event. 20dn is terrible, the rest fairly standard. Rather uncharitably I hope that Alonso and Raikkonen crash … Read more “ST 4244 (Sun 29 Sep) – Salubritas et Eruditio”

Solving time: 11:24 A welcome allusion to everyone’s favourite radio show at 16D. A choice few of Humphrey Lyttleton’s comments on Samantha’s activities are given in the ISIHAC Wikipedia article (I have just looked at … Read more “23,723 – Mornington Crescent”

Solving time 13:36 Pleased to see that this time is substantially quicker than at least one other past finalist, but not attaching much significance to it – my times can vary widely in the few … Read more “23,722 – a slow one”

Solving time: untimed but pretty rapid (with one undone clue). Not a hard puzzle – I went through it at a clip last night after a long hard day at work while eating Thai food … Read more “Times 23721 – it was a near thing”

Solving time: 51m 48s Annigoni and shandygaff were new words to me – everything else I’ve come across either in real-life or crossword-life.After realising each letter had been used apart from J, I expected a … Read more “The Times 23720 – Just the capital missing”

Solving time: 3:23, one mistake (16dn) I thought I was on for a PB on this one, which was probably the reason for my carelessness with 16dn. In the end, the last three or four … Read more “ST 4243 (Sun 23 Sep) – Poison arrow”

Solving time: 9:26 – my most disappointing time of the week (though not my longest) – after a minute’s thought, I got going OK at the start, and didn’t realise I was getting held up … Read more “Times 23,718 (detecting the architects)”

Solving time: 21:31 Alarming to take more than 20 minutes with Cheltenham looming. It was the North West corner that held me up. It would have been much faster if I had cracked the obvious … Read more “23,717 – Vicious but fair”