DNF. It was that sort of day
Category: Weekend Cryptic
Sunday Times Cryptic No 5157 by Dean Mayer — ¡Viva Panamá!
This was a spring zephyr—really a breeze—still quite entertaining for all of the ease.
Times Cryptic 29190 – Sat, 29 March 2025. In italics, you say?
Mostly straightforward.
Sunday Times 5156 by David McLean – read between the lines
9:51. This was a steady solve, largely uneventful but 1ac certainly raised a smile.
Times Cryptic 29184 – Sat, 22 March 2025. Swatted away.
I found this fairly easy going, in contrast to the Friday Fright the day before.
Sunday Times Cryptic No 5155 by Robert Price — Sláinte!
A lively and very timely mid-March offering.
Times Cryptic 29178 – Sat, 15 March 2025. Hoorah Henri.
Some wry humour.
Sunday Times 5154 by Dean Mayer – very nearly an armful
9:15. Not a difficult puzzle by Dean’s standards this week, but the usual high quality. Nothing unknown for me, although almost any other word for a plant would have been equally helpful to me at … Read more “Sunday Times 5154 by Dean Mayer – very nearly an armful”
Times Cryptic 29172 – Sat, 8 March 2025. Camel strain
Nothing major here, bar some relatively obscure trivia that needn’t stop you getting the answers.
Sunday Times Cryptic No 5153 by David McLean — ring a bell?
I struggled more with this than my last two bouts with Harry.