Month: November 2008

Solving time: 6.08. This must be another puzzle from the second heat of the semifinals, which I recall Peter saying was a very fast heat indeed. Seemed like a straightforward enough puzzle – the two … Read more “Times Crossword 24069”

I must confess I thought I would kill two birds with one stone here, and do a midnight solve on the PC while watching BBC4’s How To Solve a Cryptic Crossword on iPlayer in another … Read more “Times 24,068 – How Not To Solve A Cryptic Crossword”

This is later than I had hoped. I am currently in a rotten mood. A normally one-and-a-half hour car journey took four hours. Then I arrived home to find part of my lounge flooded. I … Read more “24067 – Right then”

Solving time: 4:20 Nothing too difficult in this – would have been one of my fastest times but for a struggle with 9ac at the end. Generally accurate clueing, and very concise which must be … Read more “ST 4301 (Sun 2 Nov)”

This took me an hour with most of the lower half completed in 15 minutes. I don’t know why I found the top half so difficult.  I certainly thought this the most difficult of the … Read more “Times 24065 – Solver’s Block”

Solving time : After 23 minutes I’m left with a dilemma on 5D – it’s a guess, and after I write this up, I’m not going to be near a computer for some time, so … Read more “Times 24064 – I’ll take a Scottish town for 5”

This is the first of a handful of “guest appearances” from me. It is a fortunate baptism into daily blogging as I’ve solved it previously.  It was the first puzzle in the second session of … Read more “24063 – It’s AXIS you half-wit!”