Category: Daily Cryptic

An enjoyable, quirky and slightly more difficult than usual Monday offering, where the tricky vocab is helpfully clued.

I think I made heavy weather of what will turn out to be an average difficulty puzzle.

  Do you know, I thought this was relatively easy, at least until I submitted when I found I had entered a plausible but wrong answer, misunscrambling an anagram. 14 minutes is quick for me, … Read more “28834 Probably would puzzle a monkey.”

This was a good one, full of unusual words and looking like it was going to be a pangram.

I didn’t find this hard but there were some devious definitions

I found this puzzle…..interesting.   I had a hard time getting started, and I ended up biffing most of the answers.   I suspect inexperienced solvers would find it very difficult, lacking both the general knowledge and the tricks of the veterans. 

16:44. This was a solid puzzle which gave me several smiles but no problems. Why should I be disappointed with that? I’m not, and it’s not the setter’s fault, but I realized that I tend to brace myself for a gut punch on Fridays, and this certainly wasn’t that! So, as much as we all like to be made to suffer now and again, I hope you could look past that and enjoy this lovely puzzle on its own merits.

After the first three puzzles this week were pretty easy, I figured I was going to get the stinker. What I didn’t expect was that the link from the Crossword Club did not go to … Read more “Times 28828 – a well hidden puzzle”

Another speedy romp for a Wednesday.

I don’t often comment on surface readings but the standard is remarkably high in this puzzle.