Category: Daily Cryptic

Solving time: 22 minutes

When I submitted this at just under the 20-minute mark I was so happy I could have kissed a Spanish football player.

I found this a slog – not really awake enough to appreciate the artful clueing.

  I managed an error free completion in 23.30, a lot of that trying unsuccessfully to work out what a sense of belonging was, even though I read Alex Haley not so long ago. Nothing … Read more “28690 Hinge benefits”

I thought this was one of the toughest Wednesdays we’ve had for ages, although we’ll see, it might have been me not on the right wavelength.

62 minutes. My solving experience was similar to last Friday when I struggled to finish but I was left feeling very satisfied that I hadn’t let it beat me. 

This is not a difficult puzzle, and I should have finished in good time.    My momentum carried me to within three answers, but then I seemed to have lost all solving ability and was stuck for a good 10 minutes – I just couldn’t see the obvious.  

I was so excited to finish this one in 18:59 that I didn’t look closely and submitted with a typo. Ah well! I kept waiting for something sneaky to crop up, but this puzzle stayed fairly gentle throughout.

Time taken: 6:39 I flew through this one, and some of the early times are pretty slick but not extremely so meaning I was probably on the setter’s wavelength here. It is a good puzzle … Read more “Times 28684 – over 40 feet high, just a little bit shy”

A most enjoyable puzzle, of medium difficulty, I thought.