Category: Weekend Cryptic

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.

24:17. I found this very difficult, for reasons I can’t now remember: it seemed mostly pretty straightforward when I came to write up the blog. It had a bit of a quirky feel to it, … Read more “Sunday Times 5120 by David McLean”

The western side of this puzzle put up good resistance!

Sheer genius, with a wide variety of succinct, initially baffling clues.

Not terribly hard for a Saturday, although some of the definitions eluded me for a while.

10:34. Not too many horses frightened in this week’s puzzle