Solving time: 42’ Took some scouring of clues and an empty grid until something fell (first was the anagram at 8D) – from then on made fairly steady progress with the bottom-half significantly easier than … Read more “Times 23595/needed a portolan to find the oche”
Day: 7th May 2007
ST 4222 (Sun Apr 29) – Puttee-fussing
Solving time: Gave up on 1dn after about 15 mins. Plenty here for the purist to quibble with. If anyone has a better answer for 1dn, please let me know! Apologies for the late posting, … Read more “ST 4222 (Sun Apr 29) – Puttee-fussing”
23,594 – short in duration
Solving time: 27 minutesVery fast for me. Got off to a great start and kept going. I think the only unfamiliar words for me were beetle=jut, barge=hopper and the composer Orlando di Lasso. Reading through … Read more “23,594 – short in duration”