Neil

Simply too difficult for a Tuesday.

Today's crossword really turned me off with some incredibly obscure clues and unusually cryptic clues for a Wednesday. There were some clues that were quite straightforward so I got off to a good start but the last few clues stumped me, with "Erse" for example (obscure enough to trigger Mac's automatic red underline for a spelling error) and "For yuks" being such an uncommon expression that when you google it you get crossword reference websites coming up before even a dictionary entry result. High dudgeon was remarked upon in Wordplay. I could go on. It took me almost as long to solve this one as Sunday's but much more frustrating.

I was a bit disappointed by the theme, the answers were rather random, I thought there might be something to tie things together more. It would’ve been cool if they all shared something or had to do with the word “matter” in A matter of degree.

A hellish nightmare of a puzzle that made me rethink doing the crossword every day.