This took what seemed an age to get a foothold into but, once I had, the answers came thick and fast. In the end it took 33:27 making it round about my average. After writing … Read more “Jumbo 894 – 23rd October 2010”
Month: November 2010
Tunes 24686: in which a 13 may 23 for a 19, but after starting in 9, like a 10 before a 17, you 25.
Solving time : 18 minutes, and there’s the one patented “I’m not sure”, which I have since looked up in Chambers to find it fits the definition part, wordplay may come to me as I … Read more “Tunes 24686: in which a 13 may 23 for a 19, but after starting in 9, like a 10 before a 17, you 25.”
24,685 – Championship Preliminary Round 2, Puzzle 2
Solving time: 8:45, on the Sunday night after getting home from Cheltenham This puzzle is out of the obvious sequence for the Championship prelims, presumably because the normal order would have given us the same … Read more “24,685 – Championship Preliminary Round 2, Puzzle 2”
Times 24,684 Old Chestnuts
Solving time 15 minutes I wasn’t in the mood for this puzzle this morning. I needed something challenging, original and amusing but didn’t find it here. Across 1 HYDE – a reference to Dr Jekyll … Read more “Times 24,684 Old Chestnuts”
Times 24683 – Normal service has been resumed
Solving Time: 25 minutes I picked a good day to swap blogs (apologies in advance if next Monday’s is a stinker, vinyl1, but them’s the breaks). Rapid progress was only halted by three clues, all … Read more “Times 24683 – Normal service has been resumed”