Completely missed this one as it snuck into a Bank holiday paper without much flagging up. Only when my calendar looked wrong this Sunday did I realise what had happened and quickly looked it up … Read more “Jumbo 1051 – the cheeky hidden one on Bank holiday Monday (26th August)”
Day: 8th September 2013
Sunday Times 4553 (1 Sep 2013) by Jeff Pearce
Solving time: 39:25 I wasn’t keen on this one as it seemed to require an awful lot of specialised knowledge. There were lots of unknowns to me – the birds PRION and TOURACO, the plant … Read more “Sunday Times 4553 (1 Sep 2013) by Jeff Pearce”
Mephisto 2766 by Don Manley – I vant to be alone
One on the easier side I thought. Across 1 GARBOLOGISTS – GARBO-LO(GIS)TS; 10 LAIR – LAIR(d); 11 SPUNKIE – S(PUNK-I)E; 12 ALCAIDE – (a citadel – t)*; T=leader in T(oledo); 13 STYME – hidden (ta)STY-ME(al); … Read more “Mephisto 2766 by Don Manley – I vant to be alone”