Solving time 15 minutes An pleasant if rather easy puzzle that shouldn’t cause too many problems Across 1 AFFRIGHT – A-F(FR)IGHT; 5 BANYAN – BAN(Y)AN(a); Y from (cherr)Y; national tree of India; 8 RUT – … Read more “Times 25,450 From Kansas To Coldstream”
Month: April 2013
Bank Holiday Monday Times Jumbo 1029
An appropriate theme for the April 1st Jumbo, with plenty of fools among the answers (SIMPLETON, AIRHEAD, BERK, CLOT, CHUMP, BUFFOON, DUNCE, CLOWN and DUMMY), and ALL FOOLS’ DAY appearing at 57ac. I didn’t encounter … Read more “Bank Holiday Monday Times Jumbo 1029”
Times 25449 – It’s a Scott, but not a Scot
Solving time: 45 rather distracted minutes Music: None, the playoff at The Masters Due to the events at Augusta, I tackled this puzzle with only half my attention. Fortunately, it proved to be another rather … Read more “Times 25449 – It’s a Scott, but not a Scot”
Mephisto 2745 – Don Manley
I thought I was in for a very quick solve here, with most of the long answers going in at a first (or second) glance. It was a bit of poring over dictionaries to get … Read more “Mephisto 2745 – Don Manley”
Sunday Times 4532 (7 Apr 2013) by Jeff Pearce
Solving time: 41:33 A straightforward, for the most part offering this week. Everything seemed to be proper and above board. There seemed several particularly easy ones, especially the four across clues in the centre of … Read more “Sunday Times 4532 (7 Apr 2013) by Jeff Pearce”
Jumbo 1028
Sorry for the slight delay on this one – the day job continues to expand out of its allotted time. Nothing to object about in the crossword. A couple of clues with tricky wordplay (28A, … Read more “Jumbo 1028”
Saturday Times 25,442 (6th April 2013)
I’m standing in for linxit this week. It’s my first call off the subs’ bench in a very long time. I imagine I will have slightly less impact than Lionel Messi did in midweek. You’ll … Read more “Saturday Times 25,442 (6th April 2013)”
Times 25447
Solving time: 1:00:13 I feel I made heavy work out of this as I was quite tired. There were some really excellent clues in here though. In fact, the overall standard of the clues was … Read more “Times 25447”
Times 25446 – my guess is apparently better than most
Solving time : 20:00 – really because after 7 minutes of umming and ahhing, I bunged in an answer that half made sense at 13 across, and it turned out to be right. A peek … Read more “Times 25446 – my guess is apparently better than most”
Times 25445: Only nine days late
Solving time: 39:12 The problem here was getting off the mark. Such tight cluing led, as I expected, to several double definitions. Six to be precise. Only one I couldn’t parse straight off, forgetting the … Read more “Times 25445: Only nine days late”