Category: Weekend Cryptic

Either I was having a lucid interval, or this was the gentlest of ST offerings in a very long time – not that I’m complaining! As I printed it out, I was alarmed by the … Read more “Sunday Times 4771 by David McLean”

Times Cryptic No 26874 – Saturday, 04 November 2017. Slowed to a crawl. While, we hoped, the stars of the troupe were tripping and twirling their way through a series of competition puzzles, this one … Read more “Times Cryptic No 26874 – Saturday, 04 November 2017. Slowed to a crawl.”

31:30. I thought this was pretty tough, although I was very tired last Sunday when I attempted it and very nearly dropped off a couple of times. Perhaps because I was half-asleep when solving it … Read more “Sunday Times 4770 by Dean Mayer”

I found this relatively easy for a Saturday, which is of course not to say easy in any absolute sense. I’m back to solving on paper, but I estimate it took me about 40 minutes … Read more “Times Cryptic No 26868 – Saturday, 28 October 2017. Uluru, if you please!”

A highly enjoyable and (in overall terms) not particularly taxing offering from Jeff this week, but with (at least for me) a sting in the tail at 11dn which took me an age to rumble. … Read more “Sunday Times 4769 by Jeff Pearce”

This was a fairly straightforward solve, although not very quick. I finished the LHS first, then the top right, and finally made sense of the bottom right. I’m always happy when there’s no weird vocabulary! … Read more “Times Cryptic No 26862 – Saturday, 21 October 2017. Straight down the fairway.”

It sometimes gets a little bit quiet round here on Sundays, so I try to liven things up occasionally by stirring up some sort of controversy (however tenuous) to encourage comment and discussion. My intention … Read more “Sunday Times 4768 by David McLean – traitors snark”

After doing the previous Saturday’s blog, I could see some synchronicity in the minds of that setter and this one. A reappearance of “Devil’s  Island”, and an echo of “cabbages and kings”, this time actually … Read more “Times Cryptic No 26856 – Saturday, 14 October 2017. Synchronise your cluing.”

Unfortunately you have me blogging for a second week in a row as we get back to the normal schedule following my absence on holiday. But don’t fret – Keriothe will be back next Sunday… … Read more “Sunday Times 4767 by Dean Mayer”

Lots of obscure references in this one, at 13ac, 3dn and 14dn particularly, but everything was gettable from wordplay or definition so a fair challenge. I am writing this blog belatedly so I don’t have … Read more “Times Cryptic No 26850 – Saturday, 07 October 2017. Devilish stuff.”