Solving time: 28:43 (1 answer wrong) I’m pretty sure this puzzle will not have appealed to everyone as it lacks the precision of modern-day Times crosswords and breaks a fair number of Ximenes’s rules. There … Read more “Times 5000 (16 March 1946)”
Month: November 2011
Times 25000 – Just another number
Solving Time: 1 hr 33 minutes It’s an auspicious occasion and a less than impressive response to it on my part. I couldn’t make a start or a finish on it and wasn’t too flash … Read more “Times 25000 – Just another number”
Mephisto 2670 by Don Manley
With 1A and 1D going straight in and the first nine down clues putting up very little resistance, this was a quick 40 minute solve. Across 1 SPADESMAN – SPA-DESMAN; water-circulator=SPA; insect-eater=DESMAN; 10 TALI – … Read more “Mephisto 2670 by Don Manley”
Sunday Times 4457 (30 Oct 2011) – A personal milestone
Solving time: 19:06 – A very straightforward solve. Welcome to my 100th blog on this site. It also happens to be two years to the very day since I posted my first one. I was … Read more “Sunday Times 4457 (30 Oct 2011) – A personal milestone”
Saturday Times 24993 (29th Oct)
Solving time 13:22, so a fairly straightforward solve for a Saturday. Clue of the day was obviously 4dn, thanks for that one, setter! Apart from that, one for the literature mafia (as opposed to the … Read more “Saturday Times 24993 (29th Oct)”
Times 24998 – West Country Disaster!
This was most definitely a puzzle of two parts for me with most of the RH side and the NW quarter going in very easily, but apart from 23ac the SW quarter was a nightmare … Read more “Times 24998 – West Country Disaster!”
Times 24997 – in space, no-one can hear you look things up in dictionaries.
Solving time : 28 minutes, and then a great deal of looking things up. The setter’s wavelength and mine were a long long long long way from each other here, and I strugged to get … Read more “Times 24997 – in space, no-one can hear you look things up in dictionaries.”
Times 24996: A moist ooze
Solving time: 54 minutes. As noted yesterday, I’ve lost my crossword mojo. Finished the puzzle but don’t understand one clue(*). All help appreciated . Across 1 HE,A,RING-I’M,PAIRED. 9 LOOK SMART. OKs and MAR inside LOT … Read more “Times 24996: A moist ooze”
Times 24,995 Nothing to do with King Arthur
Solving time 20 minutes An interesting puzzle that may cause some problems for overseas and younger solvers. I suspect one clue in particular is going to give some grief, involving as it does a mixture … Read more “Times 24,995 Nothing to do with King Arthur”