Category: Weekend Cryptic

9:06. I had no problems with this fun puzzle. How did you get on? Definitions are underlined, anagrams indicated like (TIHS)*, deletions like this, anagram indicators are in italics. Across 1 Solitude-seeker shedding old clothes … Read more “Sunday Times 5108 by David McLean – any given Sunday”

Once again the drug reference was a mystery.

This was a romp! By which I do not mean it was terribly easy—where’s the fun in that?

I did myself no favours by essaying ARC at 14 ac as my opening shot.

11:26. I didn’t find this too hard but when I came to write up the blog I found that there are a few things I don’t quite understand.

I actually don’t remember much about this one, but I think it was mostly straightforward. The exception as always was the obscure foreign word clued as an anagram.

Hmm. There’s nothing complicated about these clues, which I am looking back on nearly a week after my… leisurely solving experience, as I ask myself, What took so long?

I definitely wasn’t on my game with this one. I think it was me, not the puzzle.

DNF. I failed on 19dn here, unable to find the required country that sounds like the (to me) unknown disorder.

It was amusing to see an obscure grammar concept appear for the second day in a row. Nice synchronicity, setters!