Nice easy solve this one, did not know the ESPRIT in 54A, but the letters were there from the anagram. May well have struggled with 36D, had the same clue not come up recently, as … Read more “Jumbo 1096 – Saturday 14th June”
Day: 29th June 2014
Sunday Times 4595 by Jeff Pearce
No real time for this: I spent 35 minutes on it, but I dozed off half way through, and then got fed up and cheated to get the last two or three obstinate answers. This … Read more “Sunday Times 4595 by Jeff Pearce”
Mephisto 2808 by Don Manley
A very easy puzzle that I raced through. Nothing to say really. Across 1 OSSELET – (so steel)*; 6 ATTIC – (L)attic(E); 10 THARBOROUGH – T(HARBOR)OUGH; mispronounced thirdborough=old under-constable; 11 LEOTARD – leo-P-ard becomes leo-T-ard; … Read more “Mephisto 2808 by Don Manley”