First day of the premiership season, so I’m sat in a Sky “Event Centre” being paid to watch the football. Nice job if you can get it, but I’d rather be watching the Twenty20 finals! … Read more “Saturday Times 25550 (10th Aug)”
Month: August 2013
Times 25555
Solving time: 32:35 I’ve been on holiday in Portugal these last two weeks, due to fly back this morning, and I’ve spent a lot of that time sitting around the pool catching up with some … Read more “Times 25555”
Times 25554 – speak and/or spell
Solving time : 14:41, which at the moment is good for top spot on the club timer (the puzzle has only been available two and a half hours). Interesting puzzle, there’s a mixture of long … Read more “Times 25554 – speak and/or spell”
Times 25553: Anything but a 1dn
Solving time: 18:08 Phew! Got an easier one on blogging day after harder than usual puzzles on Monday and Tuesday. A pretty standard effort I found with a few bits of tricky wordplay holding me … Read more “Times 25553: Anything but a 1dn”
Times 25,552
23:03 on the club timer. I know there isn’t a timetable for these things, but like yesterday’s, I’d class this one as “unexpectedly tricky for its day”, based on my experience of alternate Tuesday puzzles. … Read more “Times 25,552”
Times 25551 – Not Your Average Monday
A challenging puzzle with many elegant surfaces and misleading devices. 72 minutes of hard, pleasurable but not unblemished, graft for me. Across 1 VISCOUNT – tougher to parse than to get: it’s V (as in … Read more “Times 25551 – Not Your Average Monday”
Jumbo 1046 – July 27th
I reckon this may be my quickest Jumbo to date, as almost all the clues went in on first read or thereabouts. There was nothing bad about the cluing, it just seemed quite clear cut, … Read more “Jumbo 1046 – July 27th”
Sloggers & Betters in Sheffield – October 26th
John Henderson’s asked me to publicise this upcoming event. I’d like to invite you all to a party that I’m organising at the Sheffield Tap on Saturday, October 26th. The excuse (who really needs one?) … Read more “Sloggers & Betters in Sheffield – October 26th”
Mephisto 2762 – Paul McKenna
I was too drunk and tired to write this up on Saturday. Now I’m watching the second session from Durham, this has been a gripping match! OK, now to the Mephisto – I found this … Read more “Mephisto 2762 – Paul McKenna”
Sunday Times 4549 (4 Aug 2013) by Tim Moorey
I can’t offer a solving time, I’m afraid, as I solved this in a leisurely fashion over several sessions around the pool (or even in it!) while on my hols. With the temperature in the … Read more “Sunday Times 4549 (4 Aug 2013) by Tim Moorey”