Sentence examples for my solving from inspiring English sources

So when a puzzle comes along with a plethora of fresh entries, it just makes my solving day.

But this year, unless the knavish tricks were too subtle for my solving brain, I found nothing.

Diagramless puzzle clues are supposed to be especially easy to allow the solver to focus on building the grid, but we see a bit of wordplay at 46 Across's "Intro to economics?" for MICRO, which increased my solving enjoyment.

And work I do; I have always been honest about not being a speed solver or an expert, although I can tell you that my solving has certainly improved markedly with daily practice.

This fell fairly smoothly for me, although I didn't get the second half of the theme (the fact that there are tree names hidden in some of the Down answers) until pretty far along in my solving experience.

How do you provide rooms and yet never touch the glass with a partition?" Both Johnson and Mies solved it by having no partitions.

So I took another look at my solve, and bingo!

I tell you, I was practically weeping into my Cheerios at that point in my solve.

Still, I struggled with parts of the puzzle, and found my solve — not necessarily the cluing, just gaps in my own knowledge — oddly tough.

I finished this one, but definitely thought I might need Superman to come to my rescue at one point during my solve.

I bounced around this grid during my solve, but for some reason I never ran into the payoffs at 1 Down and 55 Across.