Category: Weekend Cryptic

First, thanks very much to Keriothe for covering for me last week whilst I was swanning around in some very remote parts of Greece having a blast. I had a quick squiz at last Sunday’s … Read more “Sunday Times 4766 by Jeff Pearce”

For me this puzzle was a delight! No impossible clues, very few “gimme”s, and most hard enough to challenge. I expect the all-star solvers will find it easy, and the journeymen will get there at … Read more “Times Cryptic No 26844 – Saturday 30 September 2017. Slow and steady.”

Hello all. Nick is off gallivanting somewhere exotic (jealous, me?), so you’ve got me again I’m afraid. This week we have a puzzle that tested the boundaries of good taste on at least two occasions … Read more “Sunday Times 4765 by David McLean – enjoy what you do”

Apart from 20ac, this was a typical Saturday exercise, I thought at the time. On reviewing the stats, that may have been an optimistic assessment! Average time is well over normal, so perhaps others got … Read more “Times Cryptic No 26838. Saturday, 23 September 2017. Ladies’ day.”

12:29. A relatively gentle offering from Dean this week, but still of the usual high quality. Nothing very obscure, although the insect noise at 6dn was new to me, and perhaps PICAROON isn’t quite an … Read more “Sunday Times 4764 by Dean Mayer – a monkey without a spatula”

Times Cryptic No 26832 – Saturday, 16 September 2017. All quiet on the Western Front. Happy days! I actually did the whole puzzle on the new club site without any hiccups to report. I even … Read more “Times Cryptic No 26832 – Saturday, 16 September 2017. All quiet on the Western Front.”

I found this quite tricky at the time, although having now written up the blog it seems a fairly gentle puzzle in hindsight. No obscurities, although the drink at 3d may be off the radar … Read more “Sunday Times 4763 by Jeff Pearce”

11:30. No real problems this week, and another nice puzzle from our friend Harry. A number of neat touches but I particularly like the ‘split up’ device in 15dn. This is another puzzle with a … Read more “Sunday Times 4762 by David McLean”

For me, this was a slow solve, but never frustrating, apart from another club site problem. I started solving on my iPad, only to find that a standard iPad multi-finger gesture prompted the club site … Read more “Times Cryptic No 26820, Saturday 2 September 2017. A good idea on paper.”

This one had a bit of an unusual feel to it for me, which I think was probably down to the relatively high number of cryptic definition type clues with no associated wordplay – four … Read more “Sunday Times 4761 by Dean Mayer”