Category: Weekend Cryptic

22:53. A deviously tricky one from Dean this week, which caused me all sorts of problems particularly in the NE corner, where I got thoroughly stuck for a while. Lots of tricky stuff but I … Read more “Sunday Times 5100 by Dean Mayer”

Not many GK challenges in this, apart from the clown.

Some of these clues kept me guessing for a while, and delightfully so.

This week I used a timer again: 33′ 04″. Slower than last week. My last few in were 6ac, 22ac, and 13dn. None of them impossible, so it was probably just me!

15:04. I found this quite tricky and very enjoyable.

I prefer to solve on paper rather than on screen, and I normally can’t give you a time. This week, though, I can report 22′ 05″. I suspect that makes this a gentle Saturday

This surely isn’t “objectively” as hard a puzzle as it seemed to me last Saturday night. It would be extremely hyperbolic to call it a “Savage Mountain,” but it was a worthy challenge that I survived unscathed.

I solved this on paper. As I typed it in, I was struck by the clever definitions.

Nothing too tricky this week from Harry, but lots of fun.

There were lots of things here that I at best vaguely remembered.