Category: Weekend Cryptic

Lots of clever clues, and no obscurities! Thank you setter!!

14:06. Another lovely puzzle from Robert with a decidedly literary flavour.

… the rest should be easy.

This seemed on the easier end of the Dean spectrum. Still a smashing time!

At first look, it was hard to even find something that looked like a cryptic clue. Eventually I got a toehold

13:56. I enjoyed this puzzle a lot, just the right level of difficulty for a Sunday on which I also had to go for a run, cook lunch, walk the dogs and do some work.

Many clues this week were puzzling: what does this word mean? is that actually a word?

There are many very elegantly composed clues here, as usual with this setter.

Easy enough, apart from the Greek based medical term at 22ac.

18:15. I’ve left it very late to blog this and I am a bit tired and emotional after a friend’s daughter’s christening today, so I will keep this brief. Quite a tricky puzzle I think, … Read more “Sunday Times 5148 by Dean Mayer”