11:05. Not too difficult from Robert this week, but the usual high quality collection of elegant clues.
Category: Weekend Cryptic
Times Cryptic 29268 – Sat, 28 June 2025. GK test.
Several general knowledge unknowns here, for me at least.
Sunday Times Cryptic No 5169 by Dean Mayer — groovy thing
Solving this one required some neuronal plasticity (s t r e t c h), and I felt smarter when it was all worked out.
Times Cryptic 29262 – Sat, 21 June 2025. Old salts never die?
There was some tricky wordplay and a few elliptic definitions here.
Sunday Times 5168 by David McLean – here’s one I made earlier
17:56. A tricky and enjoyable puzzle from Harry this week
Times Cryptic 29256 – Sat, 14 June 2025. Quick Quick, slow.
I flew through most of this, but stalled on the last two.
Sunday Times Cryptic No 5167 by Robert Price — another kettle of fish
Only three anagrams this time, but hey, I’m not complaining!
Times Cryptic 29250 – Sat, 7 June 2025. Shakes on a plane.
I did this while in flight mode on an intercity flight. Luckily I didn’t accidentally refresh the screen and lose everything.
Sunday Times 5166 by Dean Mayer – top one nice one
15:06, with a silly typo. Another great puzzle from Dean, of medium difficulty.
Times Cryptic 29244 – Sat, 31 May 2025. The Porsche, or the bike?
An interesting range of topics here. Should we take the sports car or the Harley down to the Italian restaurant?