Month: August 2008

 Time taken to solve? I’m not saying, but it was off the scale. I can’t say I enjoyed this much. After an hour I had completed little more than half so I resorted to books … Read more “23993 – Beast!”

Solving time : 29 minutes. I did myself in by initially getting 18 wrong (there’s a lot of 7-letter Republics that come close to fitting the wordplay). Nothing too too obscure for this puzzle, but … Read more “Times 23992 – beating the Plantagenets at the rat-race”

Solving time 15:12 Made pretty good progress with most of this, but was left with about three answers or pairs of answers, with 21/30 th last to fall. With TIFFIN, Indie, BLUEBOTTLE, CARDIFF, CHELSEA, shut-eye, … Read more “23991”

Solving time: 9:53 Firstly, thank you very much to sotira, dorosatt, jackkt and yfyap who have blogged the Sunday Times puzzles over the last few weeks in my absence. After a largely crosswordless month I’ve … Read more “ST 4288 (Sun 3 Aug) – Argy-bargy”

Solving time : 45 minutes I may be having an off day but I found this a difficult puzzle with a lot of intricate wordplay and a good deal of slang. It was difficult to … Read more “Times 23,990 Le Mur du Louvre Mate”

Solving time: 39 minutesGot off to a flyer. Held up with the NE corner – 8,10,11,15 the last to go in – then I worked out the long one at 7. I think I’ve mentioned … Read more “23989”