Category: Weekend Cryptic

17:48. A tricky puzzle that felt a little quirky to me as I was solving, but having gone through it to write the blog I can’t now see why. It all seems perfectly in order. … Read more “Sunday Times 5036 by David McLean”

I zipped through this: top left, bottom right, bottom left, home. Hardy a pause but several smiles. LOI was 15ac, only because of my lack of geographic knowledge. I enjoyed 16dn and the inheritance at 4dn.

Keep your eyes on the road, your hands upon the wheel!

… they first quote myths? Certainly I was comprehensively beaten by 18dn! The rest was quite satisfyingly accessible.

24:21. I found this really hard, but thoroughly enjoyable as usual from Dean.

Every clue was gettable, though some took effort to bring to mind. Those who were on their game should be reporting fast times.

This was very engrossing and took me an enjoyably long while. Or two.

Looking at the answers gave me that sense of genteel nostalgia that perhaps was once the trademark of the Times crossword. The Roman general stretched my memory a little. Otherwise, I thought this was middle of the range for a Saturday. The top left took me longest.

9:34. The usual very high quality fare From Robert this week.

The fifth of November used to see celebration of Guy Fawkes day with firecrackers in Australia, but fire danger in hot and often dry weather put an end to that. So just a regular Saturday. The puzzle had some answers at the outer reaches of my vocabulary, gettable from wordplay.