Category: Daily Cryptic

A fairly typical Monday specimen, I thought.

I was almost beaten by this puzzle, which proved to be the hardest on my blogging watch for a while.

  My 23 minutes is in retrospect a disappointing time for what looked suspiciously like a big Quickie until I got into the nether regions and just blanked on clues which were still, with one … Read more “Times 28846 The chief of the Ways of God”

A perfectly reasonable puzzle, I thought, but not as much fun as some of recent Wednesdays.

Another fairly easy one on my watch.

This puzzle was rather an odd duck.   There are some good clues, but some of the clues, and some of the answers, are a bit on the strange side.    But here at TfTT, we solve ’em all.  

DNF, my first in many moons. I have no idea if this puzzle was easier or more difficult, because I had to solve it one clue at a time, then close the window and tend to my children who were running around the apartment as if they were chickens with their heads cut off. (My five-year-old is reading this as I type it and indignantly disagrees with my characterization.)

Time taken: 10:47. Was relieved that this came back all-correct, but now I need to research a few pieces of parsing. Hopefully it will all make sense, I relied on wordplay a lot more than … Read more “Times 28840 – spelling agitation”

Another fun-filled Wednesday, with some tricky parsing but nothing obscure.

Dead easy. I imagine there will be many PBs recorded today as this is a biffer’s paradise!