Category: Weekend Cryptic

References here to all parts of the globe. Reasonably straightforward, I felt. Some general knowledge required but nothing too taxing.

Didn’t have to bend over backwards, exactly, to work this, but it did put me through my paces.

A nice puzzle for a Saturday, although I’m sorry I can’t find the previous discussions of the “terms” in 9ac.

23:07. A really tricky one from Robert this week.

The fox appearing in 1ac put me in mind of the pangram in the headline. This isn’t one, but I wonder why pangram solutions are remarked on. Can anyone shed light?

With this I had an experience unusual for a Dean puzzle, of seeing the answers fairly quickly but then spending much more time puzzling over the parsing of a few of the clues.

Some vocabulary challenges in this one. I struggled to remember 9ac – a word that’s in the outer reaches of my crossword vocabulary, and definitely not for everyday use. Also, the bread sticks at 11ac definitely hadn’t stuck in my memory!

20:09. This excellent puzzle was a mix of the very easy and the very hard, with the latter gaining the upper hand.

I was struck by the colloquial vocabulary scattered through (or should I say, thru) answers and wordplay.

Bob always satisfies, and leaves me with nothing to quibble about. I hope you enjoyed this as much as I did!