What I really want to know is......

Is that the cryptic ? Or the quick cryptic ?

What I want to know is why my mind seems to wander off when I am doing a crossword, reading, watching a film or anything else I am doing.
My mind has a mind of it's own.

I can't even do two things at once now. I used to be able to write here while listening to the news but one thing blocks the other out.

Lucca no the Times, 2 inside one. Can't even remember what it's called! I've just done most of the quick cryptic.

Cryptic crosswords are a mystery to me. My mind rebels and refuses to even consider that there might be solutions to the clues.

I love crosswords - it keeps the brain active - possibly!!

kittylester

I love crosswords - it keeps the brain active - possibly!!

Me too. But I prefer them in the actual paper not in a crossword book and normally in a cafe with a cup,of coffee!

We do it over Breakfast and I agree there’s been a run of difficulty. We consider our vocabulary quite extensive, but some of the answers are really obscure. Then there’s the opposite where the answer to the clue is slang or it’s difficult to see where the link is.
Fridays wasn’t too bad. Today’s was doable.

vampirequeen

Cryptic crosswords are a mystery to me. My mind rebels and refuses to even consider that there might be solutions to the clues.

That’s how I feel about sudoku!

I love crosswords but I can't do cryptic clues

I'm baffled by why I can do the Quick cryptic but not the Times 2.

Perhaps they have a new compiler - one gets used to a certain style?

I only get the Times on Saturdays, I agree it’s a bit harder, I’m still wading through the Jumbo.

We only have the Times at the weekend. I like cryptics but usually only do the Quick cryptic. I find I do more number puzzles like Chain Link and Number Hexagon than crosswords.

I like sudoku as well but find the fiendish ones easier than the so called easy ones which I almost always mess up.

Can not do cryptic at all, mystery to me too.
but I love crosswords and Sudoku. I didn't used to like puzzle books but was bought some at Christmas and have got used to them.

Today’s was quite easy. The clue 24 Across is a bit misleading.

We do the Guardian cryptic ( or try to) nearly every day . If we haven’t much time, we do the quick crossword but there have been rumblings on the letters page that the latter is getting harder.
One question for Times cryptic crossworders, do you have the name of the setter above the crossword? I know it’s a shared pool and we know who the setter is. This gives us a general pointer as to their style and also the odd one who completely baffles us.

I never could do it kitty
I prefer codewords these says and scrabble on-line. My brain dumbed down years ago.

I would like to know what everyone else does with all the paper clutter that comes into the house and never leaves. Do you have a filing system? A day when you tackle it all?
My paper piles fill most of the kitchen table, the sideboard, the telephone table, the bedside table. I live alone so there is nobody else to blame for the clutter.

Grammaretto anything important I file, it sits on the stairs, then the upstairs landing, eventually into a metal file box in alphabetical order, a significant amount is now via email, so is filed online. Anything else is straight into the recycling bin.

Grammaretto the name for the problem where paperwork gathers in huge "drifts" is flatsurfaceitis.

I have just cleared a half-dozen or so newspapers into the recycling bag and noticed a pile of shopping lists/receipts and some leaflets have appeared to replace them.

Jaxjacky

Grammaretto anything important I file, it sits on the stairs, then the upstairs landing, eventually into a metal file box in alphabetical order, a significant amount is now via email, so is filed online. Anything else is straight into the recycling bin.

My system exactly - my desk ( upstairs) has a pile on it waiting to be filed but nothing goes on the stairs unless it’s been dealt with. My newspapers go to a neighbours guinea pigs weekly. She says they ( the guises pigs) finish the crosswords when they’re bored. ( see what I did there ??)

kittylester

I'm baffled by why I can do the Quick cryptic but not the Times 2.

I can do cryptic but often struggle with non cryptic too ...weird isn’t it?

I like war hung this lady's videos. She does decluttering to the nth degree (a bit too much, if you ask me, but I enjoy her enthusiasm). But she is down to earth and realistic. Of course, she is younger and hasn't accumulated so much clutter, but she has 4 children and she includes them in the project.

This one is about how she deals with paperwork.

youtu.be/wdX-aj9LQ2Y