Category: Daily Cryptic

I thought I’d made a decent fist of this, only to find that I was nearly three times over target.

Hardest of the week but solvable with more patience than I had today.

Time: 22:22 I’ve heard tell that our editor and chums want to include more yoof friendly answers in the grids, though the two examples in this one may be well be into their adulthood by … Read more “Times Cryptic 29398 Rollin’ down the river.”

Hello again. This crossword I thought was about average difficulty, or in other words significantly easier than most of the recent ones

Time taken 6:29

This was pretty much an ordinary Monday puzzle, with a few clever constructions that are starting to creep in, along with one or two rather loose constructions.

30 minutes, more or less. I solved this puzzle on the regular Times site (not the Crossword Club), so it wouldn’t accept my puzzle as correct. After checking every answer I finally used the Check Puzzle feature and discovered my “mistake”.

All this aside, I thought this was a delightful puzzle. Some fabulous definitions.

Time taken: 14:02. The wordplay in this puzzle is intricate – I smacked myself when I saw some of the answers, but the early solvers are making heavy weather of it!

Our final Semi-final puzzle from the Championship.

The music, the moment…