Solving Time: just over 21 minutes. It felt a relative canter compared to yesterday’s, but there are some tricky clues, and some very elegant ones.. I have three clues with wordplay currently unaccounted for, but … Read more “Times Crossword 25,379 – not spam-free, but homophone-free”
Month: January 2013
Times 25,378 – One For The Gentry
Solving time 20 minutes This is not a difficult puzzle but it has a distinct flavour Across 1 FOOTSLOG – FOOTS-L-(GO reversed); ambulate the estate in the mud; 9 OMISSION – O-MISS-I-ON; “on about”=”yatter” in … Read more “Times 25,378 – One For The Gentry”
Jumbo 1016 – Did I DIGIT? Nothing STELA, low to medium CRAIC.
This would have been an extremely quick Jumbo for me, apart from my clanger at 3D which delayed matters for a good number of minutes. I think it was quick because the clues were very … Read more “Jumbo 1016 – Did I DIGIT? Nothing STELA, low to medium CRAIC.”
Times 25377 – Resisting to the end
Solving time: 42 minutes Music: Chopin, Polonaises, Lazar Berman This one was kind of a mixed bag. I had a little difficulty getting started, not being able to find an easy one to write in, … Read more “Times 25377 – Resisting to the end”
Sunday Times 4520 (13 Jan 2013) by Jeff Pearce
Solving time: About an hour and a quarter I found this one quite hard-going. There were several unknowns to me – Horatio Alger, Maillot, Jonathan Sacks, Allen Ginsberg and Omnium-Gatherum. This last one in particular … Read more “Sunday Times 4520 (13 Jan 2013) by Jeff Pearce”
Mephisto 2733 – Don Manley
I came down with flu last weekend so don’t have a great recollection of doing this crossword, though I do seem to remember dragging myself to the coffee shop at some point. I have writing … Read more “Mephisto 2733 – Don Manley”
Saturday Times 25370 (12th Jan)
Solving time 16:16. Pretty good puzzle, with generally very good surface readings (although in a couple of clues this was at the expense of the cryptic indications). Across 1 BORDERLESS – ORDER (number of nuns) … Read more “Saturday Times 25370 (12th Jan)”
Times 25375 – An Eastern European feel
Solving time: 1:02:50 over two sessions What with Riga, Budapest and Levant, there seemed something of an Eastern European thing going on here. I tried this for about 45 minutes last night, but was struggling … Read more “Times 25375 – An Eastern European feel”
Times 25374 – we could be in for a long night
Solving time : Well 18:40 on the club timer, but it says I have one wrong. I don’t doubt that, there are two complete guesses here and one that I am not totally sure on … Read more “Times 25374 – we could be in for a long night”
Times 25373: From The Merchants of Venice with Food
Solving time: 29:32 Probably spent too long trying to construe some clues when the answers were obvious from the definitions (and/or checking letters). By the same token, the only answer I’d never heard of was … Read more “Times 25373: From The Merchants of Venice with Food”