is minute cryptic easier than other cryptic puzzles?
Yeah, mostly. There are other easy cryptics out there (I think Metro used to have a daily one that was pretty simple), but most of the broadsheet ones are more challenging. Minute cryptic is a good one to show beginners the ropes.
It's the easiest of the broadsheets - their old business model was to reel in the upwardly-mobile who felt they should be graduating to a broadsheet with an easy crossword, extensive sports section and reliably comfortable right-wing opinion pieces.
Yeah, mostly. There are other easy cryptics out there (I think Metro used to have a daily one that was pretty simple), but most of the broadsheet ones are more challenging. Minute cryptic is a good one to show beginners the ropes.