Solving Time: 18 minutes, so roughly average; nothing here to detain the speed merchants, but not too easy either. Enjoyable… cd = cryptic definition, dd = double definition, rev = reversed, anagrams are *(–), homophones … Read more “Times Crossword 25,607”
Month: October 2013
Times 25,606 – I vant to be alone
20 minutes on a blogging day – so not a difficult puzzle. Indeed some of it is rather easy. The Garbo clue is novel. Across 1 RADICAL – RADI(C)AL; poorish definition, not all supporters of … Read more “Times 25,606 – I vant to be alone”
Times 25605 – A groats-worth of wit….
Solving time: 48 minutes Music: None, golf on TV again I was not giving this puzzle my full attention, as I watched Koepka throw away the chance to win the very first PGA tournament he … Read more “Times 25605 – A groats-worth of wit….”
Jumbo 1056 – I never knew Lloyd George knew my father ?
Quick-ish solve, with no nasty surprises, although there were a few where the answers seemed obvious, but wasn’t quite sure on the parsing till much later. Some still not sure on! As usual, a bit … Read more “Jumbo 1056 – I never knew Lloyd George knew my father ?”
Sunday Times 4558 (6 Oct 2013) by Tim Moorey
Solving time: 42 mins – with aids resorted to for one. What with Dunstable, Barnes, Leyton Orient, Spar and Penguin Books, not to mention Mandy R-D, this all seemed a bit UK-centric. I wonder how … Read more “Sunday Times 4558 (6 Oct 2013) by Tim Moorey”
Mephisto 2771 – Paul McKenna
Interesting puzzle this one – when solving I put a number of answers in from the definition alone, and had to work out the wordplays later on, knowing it was my week to blog. There … Read more “Mephisto 2771 – Paul McKenna”
Saturday Times 25598 (5th Oct)
I finally got around to solving this on the train on the way home on Wednesday night, having already seen from a few comments that it was a tough one. 44:02, so it was right … Read more “Saturday Times 25598 (5th Oct)”
Times 25603
Solving time: 64:01 – with 1 mistake I found this one incredibly frustrating. I rattled through all but the last three (21, 24 & 29) in just over 20 minutes, then came to an abrupt … Read more “Times 25603”
Times 25602 – make sure you’re not filled up
Solving time : 17:27, though with one mistake. I went through the complete grid a couple of times looking for the mistake and it took me a while to find it, I had completely misparsed … Read more “Times 25602 – make sure you’re not filled up”
Times 25601: Long time parsing
Solving time: 28:45 Then a fair while after that sorting out my missing parsings: IN SUM, MASSEUSE and VOUCHSAFED. So a puzzle where a lot of the literals (sometimes with checking letters) give a reasonable … Read more “Times 25601: Long time parsing”