Category: Daily Cryptic

This is a puzzle of pretty much average Monday difficulty

Not the Boxing Day toughie we anticipated.

Time: 35:31. I don’t think I know how to explain that time, which makes the puzzle look harder than I think it was, but let’s put it down to the excitement of Christmas, an incipient … Read more “29422 A Yule Blog”

Hello again. This crossword I thought was likeable (Americanisms apart) and not too hard.

I found most of this straightforward getting myself bogged down over 4 or 5 clues at the very end.

This puzzle should not have been hard, but I was left with four unsolved at 15 minutes, and I struggled mightily with those.  

33:09, indicating middle-of-the-road difficulty (by normal Friday standards!). I thought this puzzle was just great. Wonderful word choices, lovely definitions which were misleading without being hopelessly vexing. I can stand harder, but I was quite happy with this.

Time taken: 14:11

Bugs + Bunny appear in today’s entertaining offering.

Today we revert to the more traditional Tuesday puzzle on the easier side.