Category: Weekend Cryptic

15:22. Quite a tricky one from Harry this week.

This would have been easy if not for 13 down!

Enjoyable throughout with everything clear in the end, and I learned a new word, idiom and aquatic species.

Monty Python rules, OK. I didn’t know of the Python sketch obliquely referenced at 17dn. That explains much.

21:00. Tricky one from Dean this week, although I don’t remember now (I’m writing this blog on Saturday evening) what held me up. Some lovely stuff here as usual. How did you get on? Definitions … Read more “Sunday Times 5178 by Dean Mayer – sauce for the goose”

This puzzle asked us to reverse letters many times. 

This was delightful! I was perplexed at the threshold of many clues, but never in the dark for too long.

It is sometimes suggested that the clues at the end are easier than the early ones, for some reason. Certainly, with this puzzle, my eye fell on the last across clue, and from there I flew through the SE corner. Overall a quick solve, apart from the limerick writer.

15:15. A somewhat tricky one from Robert this week.

This was a delight, but a challenge. Clever wordplay fitting smoothly into the surface readings of the clues, uncommon words, slippery definitions!