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Day: 14th August 2010

Saturday Times 24610 (7th August)

Author   linxitPosted on 14th August 2010 at 11:17 AM10 September 2025Categories Weekend Cryptic

Solving time 8:40, one of my quickest Saturday times for ages. Someone mentioned this one was very easy compared to the previous week’s, and so it turned out. The two 15-letter entries went straight in … Read more “Saturday Times 24610 (7th August)”

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Times Jumbo 882

Author   topicaltimPosted on 14th August 2010 at 9:40 AM10 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 882”

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TLS 842 (23 July)

Author   tony_severPosted on 14th August 2010 at 12:58 AM10 September 2025Categories Daily Cryptic

Solving time: 30 minutes (3 wrong) If only I’d watched Walt Disney’s One Hundred and One Dalmatians I’d probably have got PERDITA, and that would have been enough to give me SPOT (hah! another Nina?) … Read more “TLS 842 (23 July)”

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