Solving time : 26:53, which at the time put me at the top of the Club Timer – so either something is screwy with the site or this was a difficult one indeed. I found … Read more “Times 25243 – if Lucy solved 29 across”
Month: August 2012
Times 25242: After Geography … Music and Drama
Solving time: 30:46 Had a bit of trouble with some answers here. UMBRELLA I got but couldn’t parse for a while. And I’m still far from sure that my reading of the last one (25dn) … Read more “Times 25242: After Geography … Music and Drama”
Times 25,241
A rather testing 19:15, lots of it spent in the SE corner, which remained resolutely blank for ages, after I’d got 1 and 6 across at first sight and made pretty quick progress on the … Read more “Times 25,241”
Times 25240
Posting this proved a lot more difficult than solving the puzzle, for which I’m very grateful to the setter. Two classical allusions, two very gettable F&B references and possibly the easiest quartet of 3-letter words … Read more “Times 25240”
Mephisto 2710 by Tim Moorey – Meet Alfie at the Ritz
Good Mephisto of average difficulty. I was intrigued by trigamist, believing wrongly that bigamist applied to any number of multiple marriages – personally I find one wife quite enough to cope with! Also by the … Read more “Mephisto 2710 by Tim Moorey – Meet Alfie at the Ritz”
Sunday Times 4497 (5 Aug 2012) by Anax
Solving time: 58:24 Typical Anax fare. Lots of excellent wordplay, well disguised definitions and the odd obscure word. This was good fun to solve, and I was quite pleased to solve in under the hour. … Read more “Sunday Times 4497 (5 Aug 2012) by Anax”
Saturday Times 25233 (4th August)
12:33, so much easier than the last two. COD to 26ac for the excellent anagram, other wise it was all very straightforward and looking back on it I don’t know what held me up! Across … Read more “Saturday Times 25233 (4th August)”
Times Jumbo 990 (28 Jul 2012)
Solving time: 1:35:44 For the most part, I found this pretty straightforward and I was able to rattle through 75% of it in about 40 minutes. I slowed down towards the end, mainly in the … Read more “Times Jumbo 990 (28 Jul 2012)”
Times 25238 – What the Dickens?
Firstly apologies to those who are used to me posting the blog in the early hours but I decided to get a couple of hours kip before the puzzle became available and slept right through … Read more “Times 25238 – What the Dickens?”
Times 25,237 – The Advent of Mario
For the second time in succession when it was my turn to blog, I found three quarters of the puzzle a stroll and then got horribly held up at the south-east corner. This setter has … Read more “Times 25,237 – The Advent of Mario”