Daily Mail

[casternad]

Has anyone else struggled with todays crossword.In all the years I have been doing it I have never struggled as much as today.I managed 6 answers in 45 minutes and picked up another 2 from here,neither of which make any sense to me with the questions.I give up.

[Mamyalynne]

If you need assistance on parsing any, many are here to help.

Don't give up.

[casternad]

Thanks but I would be here all night writing questions there are so many and I have work tomorrow.I sometimes complete and usually one or two I need help but never nearly all of them.Football and beer over the weekend must have frazzled my brain!

[Mamyalynne]

A fresh day may make it feel right, night x

[goodgoalie]

As I've said before on AB (probably more than once!), I wish the newspapers that publish anonymous crosswords - Times, Telegraph, Mail - would start to use pseudonyms,or even real names like The Sunday Times, so we know before starting who it is we're doing battle with. If today's Mail had a setter's name, then you'd know next time it was set by them that it would be a good test....

For example, many of us on AB love having a tussle with Dean Mayer in The Sunday Times, every 3rd Sunday; and sometimes anonymous crosswords in other newspapers feel like one of his, but there's no way of knowing.

[whitehill]

I agree with you, casternad. I usually finish it each day but yesterday I had to leave it with half a dozen unsolved - but as Mamyalynne says, I went back to it this morning, got one of them and the rest followed. The strange thing was that I looked on here yesterday and couldn't find any queries about it, so I thought that I was the only one who was struggling..

[dannyk13]

https://www.theguardian.com/crosswords/crossword-blog/2014/jun/23/crossword-blog-meet-the-setter-crucible

[dannyk13]

^ sets the Daily Mail daily crosswords^