Took about half an hour, with a few going in on a wing and a prayer. Very loose by today’s standards, with loads of weak cryptic definitions and a couple of bits of Shakespeare (but … Read more “Vintage Olympic Crossword 10737 – originally October 10th 1964”
Month: December 2012
Times Crossword 25,355 – are you getting your Five A Day?
Solving Time: 22 minutes, which seems to be about average for me at present. Fairly straightforward stuff, helped by an easy 1ac and 2dn. The only unknown for me was the French writer (as usual) … Read more “Times Crossword 25,355 – are you getting your Five A Day?”
Times 25-2012 Did The Cormorant Flap Its Wings?
Solving time 20 minutes Happy Christmas to one and all. I’m not expecting many visitors to the blog today but the Times have provided us addicts with our daily shot and the show must go … Read more “Times 25-2012 Did The Cormorant Flap Its Wings?”
Times 25354 – All that work at the gym pays off!
Solving time: 35 minutes Music: Brahms, Symphony #1, Horenstein/LSO This one was a little more challenging for me, since I both had a hard time getting started and got stuck in the NW corner for … Read more “Times 25354 – All that work at the gym pays off!”
Sunday Times 4516 (16 Dec 2012) by Tim Moorey
Solving time: About an hour I did about half of this in a dentist’s waiting room, and then on the bus on the way back to work. I finished it the following day over another … Read more “Sunday Times 4516 (16 Dec 2012) by Tim Moorey”
Mephisto 2729 – Paul McKenna – Now not a placeholder nor a blog of the wrong crossword
It’s been one of those weekends, I completely misread the day of John Halpern’s skype call (did anyone else make it?) and when I came to write the Mephisto blog, LiveJournal is down. It came … Read more “Mephisto 2729 – Paul McKenna – Now not a placeholder nor a blog of the wrong crossword”
Times Jumbo 1010 (8 Dec 2012)
Solving time: About 1 hour 40 minutes. On the whole a pleasant solve. I was held up by never having heard of either of the two long ones at 4 & 15. I loved the … Read more “Times Jumbo 1010 (8 Dec 2012)”
Saturday Times 25347 (15th Dec)
Solving time 16:05, so about average for a Saturday puzzle. Sorry it’s a bit rushed, but I’m lousy with flu this morning. Hope I feel better by Tuesday! Across 1 DOWNPLAY – L (pounds) inside … Read more “Saturday Times 25347 (15th Dec)”
Times 25352
Solving time: 31:36 I didn’t have any major problems with this, despite tackling it after midnight and being quite tired, so I suspect it must be on the easy side. A couple of unknown words … Read more “Times 25352”
Times 25,351 – A Bit Of A Laugh
Had a lovely time in Fujian, China attending the consecration of an ancestral temple, together with thousands of people from all over the world whose surname is Yap and whose forebears originated from this part of China … Read more “Times 25,351 – A Bit Of A Laugh”