Category: Daily Cryptic

Nothing too much to frighten the horses here

I made heavy weather of this, but I don’t think it’s too hard.

Ford Prefect’s 15 year stay on Earth expanded the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy entry on the Blue Dot from “harmless” to “mostly harmless” which adequately describes this puzzle which I more or less scampered … Read more “28858 Après Mao.”

Nothing frightening here, with a Latin and Italian flavour.

Enjoyable and not particularly difficult.

This puzzle was unusually tricky for a Monday, particularly in terms of general knowledge.   If you had heard of all the answers, you might do very well, but otherwise you’re in trouble.

19:01. With my level of energy tonight, this was the sort of puzzle I was hoping for: not too easy, not too hard. Some longer ones were biffable, yet others I had to work out carefully from the wordplay.

I got interrupted while solving this one, so I do not have an accurate time, but I solved it pretty readily, I’d say this is easier than normal. Good thing too, because this has been … Read more “Times 28852 – February bonus”

An entertaining puzzle which I finished but struggled to explain.

Not a particularly hard puzzle but the clues are interesting and varied.