Month: October 2009

 Is this one of the new grids? It doesn’t look familiar and I don’t remember one being so dominated by 8-letter answers , 8 of them across and another 8 down. And even the one … Read more “Times 24352 – Pieces of Eight”

Solving time : 19 minutes, found this a struggle, though the words are not that unusual, I had a tough time justifying a few and held back on pulling the trigger a few times. At … Read more “Times 24351 – something tasty, something naughty and one old king”

Solving time: 7:20 A fairly smooth run, with 6A and all three of its danglers solved on first sight. At least three stock wordplays here, and two of the three fooled me on first reading … Read more “Times 24350”

Solving time : 25 minutes An entertaining puzzle with some good clues and interesting constructions. Also quite a range of knowledge required from the usual sources plus a little piece of Euclidean geometry. The non-cricketing … Read more “Times 24,349 Take a butchers me old china”

Solving time: 28 minutes Music: Wagner Orchestral Excerpts, Furtwangler This one should have been easy, but I had two wrong entries for a while and mis-wrote a correct entry, causing considerable difficulties in getting the … Read more “Times 24348 – Live from the Kemble, it’s the Sardonic Rumpus!”

Solving time: 9:21 Not a great puzzle but at least free of mistakes, as far I can see. I wasted two minutes on 20dn (GRACKLE) at the end, and also didn’t know 21dn (BORNITE). * … Read more “ST 4348 (Sun 27 Sep) – Bornite entity”