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Day: 14th August 2009

Times Saturday 24,299 (Aug. 8th 2009)

Author   sotiraPosted on 14th August 2009 at 10:16 PM10 September 2025Categories Weekend Cryptic

21:08 – this wasn’t especially hard, with some helpful checking letters rendering a good deal of the wordplay less than critical. But pretty entertaining stuff, with a couple of very interesting clues. I can’t fully … Read more “Times Saturday 24,299 (Aug. 8th 2009)”

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Times Jumbo 827 – Get Weaving!

Author   topicaltimPosted on 14th August 2009 at 6:53 PM10 September 2025Categories Jumbo Cryptic

The usual Jumbo rubric: as the solution is available alongside (or indeed before) the blog, comment is confined only to references that might remain obscure to overseas / inexperienced solvers even with the answer visible, … Read more “Times Jumbo 827 – Get Weaving!”

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Times 24304 – OOH ER!

Author   jackktPosted on 14th August 2009 at 7:20 AM10 September 2025Categories Daily Cryptic

Time taken to solve: 32 minutes again. A fairly straightforward puzzle to solve which required a bit more thinking about in order to write it up with a degree of confidence, however after all that … Read more “Times 24304 – OOH ER!”

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