Category: Daily Cryptic

A pan-Atlantic offering to please (or frustrate) us all.

  13.10, though I thought it was going to be quicker. After the chastening challenge of the first Competition grid yesterday this felt like a generous helping of light relief, and in the early stages … Read more “29362 ….and breathe.”

An interesting crossword with some fairly advanced vocabulary

Much of this went in quite easily once I got started

I printed out three puzzles for the evening, and whipped through the Quickie.   Next up was supposed to be the main puzzle, but the puzzle on my clipboard was the Championship final.   Fortunately, I realized this immediately from the difficulty of the clues – no easy Monday this!  Turning to the correct puzzle with relief, I found it not as easy as usual, although not really hard.   

25:51. It would appear I might have done well on a hard one. I felt like I caught onto the setter’s tricks fairly early, but the last few were tough-going indeed.

Time taken: 7:54 – but looking at the early solving times I must have been way on the setter’s wavelength or I knew the references quickly, because my time is better than the solvers I … Read more “Times 29356 – maybe Tricky Thursday?”

A nice puzzle, with a liberal sprinkling of alcoholic beverages to whet our appetites, and a boozy dessert thrown in for good measure.

Enjoyable and inventive

A slightly more difficult than usual Monday offering.