Category: Daily Cryptic

The latest in a run of not especially complex Monday puzzles took me 15:50.

I’ll make a pre-SNITCH guess of about 130, or pretty hard.

  Another fine puzzle which occupied me for 25.44, which looks to be a pretty good time. I found the right hand side of the grid much easier than the left, fading generally into the … Read more “28702 A special operation or two.”

A gentle Wednesday this week, with a couple of entries from the urban dictionary and three tolerable homophones.

An enjoyable puzzle, with very smooth, often amusing surfaces.

I found this a typical Monday, and while I had trouble getting started, I was able to find a foothold in the bottom half and make rapid progress.  I was also helped by a certain Quickie from last week, and broke out into the top half.

This was a toughie, for sure, although at the beginning I was terribly distracted by goings-on with children and bedtime, so I didn’t get any flow.  Somewhere around the 15–20 minute mark, my brain clicked on and I could pick up steam, but towards the end things ground to a halt again. By the end, I had too much head-scratching to submit, yet all was correct in a hair under 56 minutes.

Time taken: 10:30.  I think this one might be a touch easier than that, but I am a little out of practice, a change in scheduled means I am a few days behind on the … Read more “Times 28696 – tie one on”

After last Wednesday’s toughie, this was comparatively a breeze…

Solving time: 22 minutes