Month: January 2009

Solving time: 10.25. I thought this was a fairly average puzzle, with tricky wordplay in quite a few places that I had to go back and figure out later. I haven’t been posting many times … Read more “Times Crossword 24130”

Solving time: 15:56 I seemed to be making heavy weather of this, but it was just general toughness rather than any major hold-up on an individual clue. It would have been better if I had … Read more “Times 24,129”

Solving time 13:38, Q-1 E-7 D-7 This seems a good example of a puzzle on the hard side of average, with hardly anything needed in the general knowledge line. One very fussy quibble point for … Read more “Times 24128 – Jimbo might be 9A …”

One of those where I felt myself on the right wavelength from the off. Several classical references, which always helps me, but which might hold up those who, like Peter Cook, never had the Latin; … Read more “Times 24,127 – We’ve had a letter from a Mrs Trellis of North Wales…”

Solving time: about 36 minutes The hotel I’m in has ‘High Speed Internet Access’ but the crossword took about four minutes to load – a similar time elapsed when trying to search to check word … Read more “The Times Cryptic Crossword Number: 24126”