Solving time: About 55 minutes, and I was quite pleased with that. There were quite a few unknown words for me this week – PROGENITRESS, ALSATIA, MERISTEM, CORSELET & SEROUS although I managed to deduce … Read more “Sunday Times 4566 (1 Dec 2013) by Dean Mayer”
Month: December 2013
Saturday Times 25646 (30th Nov)
Solving time approx. 20 minutes. Again I didn’t get around to solving it until Friday evening, but at least that means it’s still fresh in my mind! Pretty good puzzle, but not as tricky as … Read more “Saturday Times 25646 (30th Nov)”
Times Jumbo 1064
I solved this over three sessions so I’ve no idea what my time would have been, but I felt it was towards the tougher nd of the Times Jumbo spectrum, and there’s one clue (to … Read more “Times Jumbo 1064”
Times 25651
Solving time: 1:10:27 – although I’m pretty sure I fell asleep in the middle somewhere, but I’m not sure how long for! A tricky puzzle that I probably would have enjoyed more had I not … Read more “Times 25651”
Times 25650 – A 1ac ate my baby
Solving time : a distracted 20:35 with one silly typo (JONN for JOHN at 7 down). I’m distracted by the first day of the Brisbane Adelaide (wow, I was distracted) Test and the culmination of … Read more “Times 25650 – A 1ac ate my baby”
Times Crossword 25,649 – Statistics Show…
Solving Time: Just under 30 minutes, so somewhat harder than average, but with several of those minutes spent on 28dn. Also I have several not fully parsed and one error, which I suspect might in … Read more “Times Crossword 25,649 – Statistics Show…”
Times 25,648
When I choose to solve and blog at midnight rather than the next morning, there’s not usually enough of a sample of other online solvers to work out if I’ve been comparatively fast or slow, … Read more “Times 25,648”
Times 25647 – A little bit of this and a little bit of that
53 minutes for me, with five of those spent on the unknown revloutionary chap. A little bit of everything here: Greek, British slang, British toff-speak, British northern towns, misenumeration from the good folk at The … Read more “Times 25647 – A little bit of this and a little bit of that”
Sunday Times 4565 (25 Nov 2013) by Jeff Pearce
Solving time: About 35 minutes, but without full parsing. There were several answers that were obvious from the definitions & checkers, but the wordplay took a while to untangle. I’m thinking of the long ones … Read more “Sunday Times 4565 (25 Nov 2013) by Jeff Pearce”
Mephisto 2778 by Don Manley
Off to a fast start with 1A, 5A and 11A followed by the first five down clues in very short order. No major hold-ups after that for a good average puzzle. Some enlightenment needed at … Read more “Mephisto 2778 by Don Manley”