Solving time 16:44, quite tricky in places with a couple of unexpected partial words (BIOG, IMPROV), but nothing too obscure and I should have been quicker than that. Now then, I was surprised to read … Read more “Saturday Times 25723 (1st March) – and lots of opportunities for new bloggers.”
Month: March 2014
Times 25728
Some of this was straightforward and I thought for a while I might be in for an easy ride, but several clues put up quite a lot of resistance and time gradually slipped away from … Read more “Times 25728”
Vanilla? Chewy toffee? Tutti Frutti? Neither, but a pleasant enough picnic. Times 25727
A rather exciting sub-10 for me, and even then I wasn’t the first on the board having started at midnight local time. I’d like to suggest there’s a bit of an outdoor party theme trying … Read more “Vanilla? Chewy toffee? Tutti Frutti? Neither, but a pleasant enough picnic. Times 25727”
Times Crossword 25,726 – tutti-frutti?
Solving Time: 26 minutes.. so a bit harder than average but not unduly so. As we saw yesterday it can be hard to judge a crossword mid-blog, as it were.. but I thought this a … Read more “Times Crossword 25,726 – tutti-frutti?”
Times 25,725 – Chewy Toffee Flavour
20 minutes and not a lot to say really. The bird may be unknown to some but I expect some fast times today. On edit: clearly I got that wrong. Luckily I was in tune … Read more “Times 25,725 – Chewy Toffee Flavour”
Times 25724 – Love is just a one-letter word
Solving time: 11 minutes Music: Finzi – A Severn Rhapsody, Introit, Nocture, Prelude, Three Soliloquies, Romance, The Fall of the Leaf, Boult/LSO Please take note of today’s musical program. Excuses will no longer be accepted! … Read more “Times 25724 – Love is just a one-letter word”
Mephisto 2791 – Tim Moorey
And now time for sports – there’s an English cricketer and a soccer player in here, and reading the clues I thought there might have been another cricketer hiding in wordplay (not so but I … Read more “Mephisto 2791 – Tim Moorey”
Sunday Times 4578 (23 Feb 2014) by Dean Mayer
Solving time: 44:32 Not too difficult by Dean’s standards, but no less enjoyable for it. Plenty of excellent surface readings, and clever wordplay. cd = cryptic def., dd = double def., rev = reversal, homophones … Read more “Sunday Times 4578 (23 Feb 2014) by Dean Mayer”
Saturday Times 25717 (22nd Feb)
Solved in 15:44, so about average in difficulty. I didn’t realise until I came to do the blog, but there’s a long run of double definitions and semi-cryptic double definitions in the middle of the … Read more “Saturday Times 25717 (22nd Feb)”