Category: Daily Cryptic

Time taken: 10:30

Entertainment seems to be something of a theme today with parties; books; television; films; singing; dancing; and musicians all here to divert us.

Inventive at times and mostly very enjoyable.

I made a bit of a meal of this, sitting there with the third highest WITCH

Plenty to chew over after the fact, since a few (especially downs) went in on checkers and without fully understanding the wordplay. By no means an all-weekender, nevertheless.

Time: 23:56 Not especially difficult, though younger viewers might be challenged by the featured entertainers and some rather odd vocabulary. Our setter seems to be particularly fond of things going backwards – I’ve counted 8 … Read more “29494 Bottles on the doorstep.”

Hello again. This crossword I found quite hard, although now I come to do the blog I’m not absolutely sure why…

I lost a lot of time here over two answers entered incorrectly.

This should have been rather easy, but after racing through about two-thirds I became most thoroughly stuck, and could just not see some very simple clues.

14:55. As the SNITCH would have it, we’ve had milder Fridays lately, compared to the last several months.