Category: Weekend Cryptic

Entertaining, and educational too—seemed a bit harder than the last challenge from Bob. Some clues are surely going to be easier, though, for residents of the UK.

This was reasonably easy to solve, and very easy to write up!

19:03. I found this very hard, and got particularly badly stuck in the NE corner.

Lots of clues struck me as having a novel flavour, and 24ac is superb.

Relax, take your time. Sunday’s fun day! We’ve got games, drinks, drugs, a little fooling around…

There seemed to be a lot of clues where I could see the answer from the definition, but laboured to see the wordplay.

14:07. I made fairly zippy progress through most of this but then got completely stuck.

I found this harder than recent Saturdays. Progress was along the diagonals – the NW and SE put up most resistance. I loved the clever clueing and applauded the scarcity of obscurities!

This wasn’t a piece of cake, but it was clearly fresh.

There were a lot of neat clues and cute ideas here.