Month: April 2008

I struck lucky with an easy one today and polished it off in about 20 minutes which is as good as things get for me. I can’t see there’s much that could cause others problems … Read more “23897 – Winding gently down for the weekend”

Solving time:13:49 This was good but seemed quite tough, with lots of answers that are on the borders of the level of obscurity one would expect in a daily puzzle. Fortunately, I have recently re-read … Read more “Times 23,896”

Solving time 5:40 Started quickly and hoped to dip under 5 mins for a while, but didn’t quite make it. Maybe easier for the geographically savvy, with three place names. Across 1 HORS(D)E,COMBAT = “to … Read more “23895 – toponyms”

Solving time : 25 minutes A largely straightforward, enjoyable and very fair puzzle unusually without homophones or a hidden word but several multiple meaning clues. Nothing held me up although I guessed ESURIENT and for … Read more “Times 23894 Spencer Thingumabob”

Solving time: 54 mins I really enjoyed this overall. Quite a few tricky words, but generally all quite gettable from the clues. Last to go in were HASSOCK, OLID and BLACKCAP. For 29A, I wasn’t … Read more “Times 23893 – eh?”

Solving time: Would have been under 3 minutes but for an extra 10 or so on 14ac! Even easier than last week, although frustratingly I stalled on 14ac (despite being fairly confident of the answer) … Read more “ST 4272 (Sun 13 Apr) – Brain Teeser”

Had to lookup ALICE BAND to check it as well as GRASMERE. Other than that, I thought that this was relatively easy for a Saturday. Probably finished it off in about half an hour. Across … Read more “Times 23886”

Solving time – 16:53  Quite tricky in places, and from the comments received so far it looks like the literary stuff (3, 22, 28) slowed a few people down. Luckily this is one of my … Read more “23891 – Morning campers!”