Month: September 2008

Solving time: 8:00 Some good stuff this week, with the definition in 4dn the highlight for me, but also several quibbles. This didn’t feel a very fast solve, which would be in keeping with the … Read more “ST 4294 (Sun 14 Sep) – Boxing clever”

Solving time: 26.12. Found this really hard going – almost every clue seemed to present a problem. I actually had everything filled in after 18 minutes or so, but after my mistakes earlier in the … Read more “Times Crossword 24023”

Solving time: 18:28 Started well, then after three minutes a friend sat down beside me on the Tube. And when I picked it up again, I realised that there were lots of tricky ones. Also … Read more “Times 24,022”

Solving time 17:45 Very slow start to this – got all the way to TOPI at 21A before getting started. Then a couple more of the bottom acrosses and several bottom half downs went in. … Read more “24021 – a rum do?”

Solving time : 45 minutes, making this the trickiest Tuesday I’ve come across in a while, though obviously your mileage may vary. More to do with some well-disguised definitions in the clues than obscure vocabulary … Read more “Times 24,020”

Solving time: 26 minutes I thought this was going to be a real difficult one on first read through. I got only two of the across clues straight away (SUPERIOR and LONESOME). Fortunately the down … Read more “Times 24019”

Solving time: 3:34 A real mixture this week: some very good clues, much better than average, and a few that are a bit questionable. There seems to be a mistake in the clue for 14ac … Read more “ST 4293 (Sun 7 Sep) – Pergola alarm”