Category: Weekend Cryptic

This seemed like the hardest Saturday puzzle for a very long time! Throw in several answers that I’d never heard of or barely remembered, and some trick definitions.

7:06. Not a difficult puzzle, but an absolute delight.

… and all of that in just one clue!

I can’t remember having ever worked a puzzle by Harry so quickly. Maybe I just hit the clues in the order right for me, because, on review, I note that there were plenty of tricky moves here.

I may generally have been on the setter’s wavelength with this one. My LOI and favourite clue, once the penny dropped, was 1ac. How about you? Note for newcomers: The Times offers prizes for Saturday … Read more “Times Cryptic 29094 – Sat, 7 Dec 2024. 1770 and all that.”

8:21. Not a difficult puzzle, but a model of elegance

It’s fair to say that I ground through this. That’s not to say it was hard, but there were no leaps of inspiration for me.

Several of these kept me guessing a while. There were three unknowns, from the worlds of sports, entomology and botany.

Like Sesame Street – this crossword is brought to you by the letter W.

12:22. I’m in a rush this week…