Category: Weekend Cryptic

Mainly just everyday words here, nothing very obscure… but, oh, those sneaky definitions!

Thanks, setter. This may have given you all a relaxing Saturday.

27:18. Blimey, that was a tough one! But a highly enjoyable challenge with some superb clues. There are a couple of wordplay elements that I’m not quite sure I understand so any suggestions gratefully received. … Read more “Sunday Times 5208 by Dean Mayer”

I found this very hard for a Saturday. It took me several sessions.

Certainly got my money’s worth here!

This was harder than most Saturdays. Thankfully, not to compare with the Thursday before!

17:54. A lot of fun – including a couple of first-class long anagrams – in this week’s puzzle from Harry, which for some reason I found decidedly tricky. It all seems perfectly straightforward now but … Read more “Sunday Times 5206 by David McLean – never mind the beaver”

This was fun, pitched at our expected Saturday level.

This was just great fun, consisting entirely of pretty common words, but all clued ingeniously enough to keep it interesting to the end.

Perhaps it was just a wavelength thing, but I found this easy for a Saturday. Still, it had delightful clues.