Hmm. There’s nothing complicated about these clues, which I am looking back on nearly a week after my… leisurely solving experience, as I ask myself, What took so long?
Category: Weekend Cryptic
Times Cryptic 28878 – Sat, 30 March 2024. Slow, slow, …
I definitely wasn’t on my game with this one. I think it was me, not the puzzle.
Sunday Times 5104 by Robert Price – what cheese do you use to hide a horse?
DNF. I failed on 19dn here, unable to find the required country that sounds like the (to me) unknown disorder.
Times Cryptic 28872 – Sat, 23 March 2024. Grammar-man vibrations
It was amusing to see an obscure grammar concept appear for the second day in a row. Nice synchronicity, setters!
Sunday Times Cryptic No 5103 by Dean Mayer — Not a word wasted
Clues succinct and densely packed, somewhat like koans, hard to crack.
Times Cryptic 28866 – Sat, 16 March 2024. Haardvark.
Many clues needed graft, and even those where the answer seemed clear needed careful reading and untangling.
Sunday Times 5102 by David McLean
16:55. I found this quite tricky, in a good way. A very enjoyable challenge.
Times Cryptic 28860 – Sat, 9 March 2024. More things in heaven and earth …
More things than I’ve ever heard of.
Sunday Times Cryptic No 5101 by Robert Price — FOUND DOG
This was great fun, albeit fairly easy. We are given a nice variety of clue types.
Times Cryptic 28854 – Sat, 2 March 2024. No googlies.
My COD was 15dn. Best clue of its type in a long time!