Solving time 20 minutes I was convinced this puzzle would be a tribute to Dickens, today being the 200th anniversary of his birth. I was ready to moan about the failure to recognise Darwin’s similar … Read more “Times 25,079 Where the Dickens?”
Month: February 2012
Times 25078 – Was I supposed to be watching something on TV?
Solving time: 54 minutes Music: Mahler, Symphony #5, Levine/Philadelphia Orchstra I thought this might be a rather quick solve when I put in nearly half the answers in 10 minutes, but then I slowed down … Read more “Times 25078 – Was I supposed to be watching something on TV?”
Sunday Times 4470 (29 Jan 2012)
Solving time: 35:28 A lot of really good wordplay this week. Much of it extremely well-disguised. The containment indicators in 4 & 16, for example, were both hard to spot. Also 14, 15 & 18 … Read more “Sunday Times 4470 (29 Jan 2012)”
Times Jumbo 962
A straight down the middle puzzle this, by which I mean I didn’t find very much that could be regarded as demandingly obscure, but at the same time not too many clues which were blindingly … Read more “Times Jumbo 962”
Saturday Times 25071 (28th Jan)
A bleary-eyed 24:43 on the 6:51 to Euston on Monday morning for this one. I recently changed jobs and now have to get from Coventry to Brentford every morning, and I’m never very good in … Read more “Saturday Times 25071 (28th Jan)”
Times 25076 – A 21st century puzzle
Solving time: 29:47 – 1a went in fairly quickly, and I made steady progress from there. A good strong puzzle with quite a few uncommon words thrown in just to keep one on one’s toes. … Read more “Times 25076 – A 21st century puzzle”
Times 25075 – dat wabbit!
Solving time : didn’t record one, did this during short snatches in a very long tech rehearsal for a new show (we open Friday, if you’re in the Asheville area over the next few weeks, … Read more “Times 25075 – dat wabbit!”
Times 25074: A citizen of credit … and renown?
Solving time: 19:31. Romped through the bottom half, helped by the crossing anagrams at 13dn and 23ac. But a bit slower in the North where I thought there was something terribly clever going on with … Read more “Times 25074: A citizen of credit … and renown?”