Solving time – not recorded for some reason. I normally note it on my printout, but forgot to do so last week. It was a fairly quick time though, maybe around 12 minutes. Across 1 … Read more “Saturday Times 24113 (03/01/09)”
Month: January 2009
Times Crossword 24118
Solving time: 11.04. A pleasant enough workout that started with CYBERSPACE – nice to see PHISHING turn up in the same puzzle. I felt I should have been able to do this one in 10 … Read more “Times Crossword 24118”
Times 24,117
Solving time: about 18 minutes Four minutes in to this (when I thought things were going well) a friend got on to the tube and sat next to me. Once she’d settled down to read … Read more “Times 24,117”
Mephisto 2522 – Tim Moorey
Solving time: c. 45 mins, with Chambers used for the last half hour or so. Fresh from the top of the Crossword best-seller lists, Time gives us quite a tough wiorkout with our copies of … Read more “Mephisto 2522 – Tim Moorey”
24116 – Oh brother, it’s déjà vu …
…and it’s also good to be back. Radiotherapy and post-treatment taking things easy are now complete, with some interesting hair loss which is mainly restricted to the back of my head. Solving time 11:16 This … Read more “24116 – Oh brother, it’s déjà vu …”
Times 24,115 – Pieces of Eight…and Bacon
Some nicely misleading definitions in this puzzle such as “pieces”, “sporting” and “scholarship”, and a couple of unusual ones – “apostle spoon”, “corner bacon” – made this a slightly more testing proposition than it first … Read more “Times 24,115 – Pieces of Eight…and Bacon”
Times 24114
O dear – I seem to have deleted all the comments. I will re-add them at the bottom of this entry. Very sorry. Solving time: 37 minutes – 16 of which spent on the NW … Read more “Times 24114”
ST 4309 (Sun 28 Dec) – Aztec, camera
Solving time: 7:40 (one mistake) A nice puzzle to end the year with generally simple breakdowns, 5dn excepted! * = anagram, “X” = sounds like ‘X’. Across 1 IN CAME R.A. – I was thrown … Read more “ST 4309 (Sun 28 Dec) – Aztec, camera”
ST Jumbo 4308 (Sun 21 Dec) – ‘Twas the aconite before Christmas…
Solving time: 25:25, appropriately! One mistake (10dn: ‘acotine’ for ACONITE). The Sunday Times gave us a Jumbo puzzle for Christmas, which contained several seasonal answer words and many clues having Christmas-themed surface readings. Like last … Read more “ST Jumbo 4308 (Sun 21 Dec) – ‘Twas the aconite before Christmas…”
Saturday Times 24107 (27th Dec)
19:30 for the last Saturday crossword of the year. I found this fairly tricky, with quite a few “General Knowledge” clues as well as some sly wordplay in places. Across 1 HOME PAGE – (game, … Read more “Saturday Times 24107 (27th Dec)”