Solving Time: About 15 minutes, a little faster than average for a blogging day. There are one or two tricky clues, but otherwise I don’t think there is much to detain the quicker solver for … Read more “Times Crossword 25,403, 20 February 2013”
Month: February 2013
Times 25,402 Jim Whitman Meets Francis Drake
Solving time 20 minutes Nothing too difficult here but a range of GK required. I’m not sure for example quite how well known either the countertenor or the castaway are let alone the Norse tree. … Read more “Times 25,402 Jim Whitman Meets Francis Drake”
Times 25401 – Give Me That Old-time Religion
After a weekend of fine geographically-orientated puzzles (Tim Moorey’s excellent Sunday offering contains my clue of the month so far), a slightly trickier than usual Monday crossword, albeit one likely to generate less heat than … Read more “Times 25401 – Give Me That Old-time Religion”
Mephisto 2737 – Tim Moorey
I found this to be one of the more tricky offerings from the Mephisto series lately. Put a couple of incorrect answers in early (11 across went through several iterations). I didn’t think 3 (another … Read more “Mephisto 2737 – Tim Moorey”
Sunday Times 4524 (10 Feb 2013) by Dean Mayer
Solving time: 53:58 A typically clever offering from Dean this week. He rarely disappoints when it’s his turn. There were a couple of good &lits at 2 & 11, with 11 being so good that … Read more “Sunday Times 4524 (10 Feb 2013) by Dean Mayer”
Saturday Times 25394 (9th Feb)
Solving time not noted, think it was about 20 minutes. After a hectic week I didn’t get to this until Wednesday or Thursday on the train, and I remember struggling a bit on the top … Read more “Saturday Times 25394 (9th Feb)”
Times Jumbo 1020 (2 Feb 2013)
Solving time: 1:27:01 I struggled with this one to start with, but once I got into my stride I sped up a bit. On the whole, an enjoyable puzzle with quite a few good clues. … Read more “Times Jumbo 1020 (2 Feb 2013)”
Times 25399 – Simply a nightmare
Solving time: 69:45 – With two wrong apparently, although I can’t for the life of me see where one of them is. That was a real struggle from start to finish. There were a couple … Read more “Times 25399 – Simply a nightmare”
Times 25398 – happy VD!
Solving time : 20:12 on the club timer with a silly typo and a few minutes break in the middle. Nothing too too difficult, though I needed to look up the wordplay on 25 across … Read more “Times 25398 – happy VD!”
Times 25397: Capital, capital! (as Marx said when Engels’s cheques arrived)
Solving time: 18:12 Should have been quicker in retrospect, strangely held up by 1ac and 4dn! Put this down to blogger’s nerves eh? Otherwise a fairly straight solve much aided by no fewer than four … Read more “Times 25397: Capital, capital! (as Marx said when Engels’s cheques arrived)”