Pretty straightforward 11 minute solve without being detained by anything in particular for very long (I think it helps that this grid, especially if you spot the long words early on, is quite a user-friendly … Read more “Times 25,815”
Month: June 2014
Times 25814 – Young Bears Beware!
32 minutes for this most enjoyable outing, which takes us to the South China Sea and back again with stop-offs in Nottinghamshire, Scotland, Ireland, France, Germany, Italy, Greece and North America. We even have a … Read more “Times 25814 – Young Bears Beware!”
Quick Cryptic No. 71 by Tracy
As usual on a Monday the button’s not working, so here’s the url of today’s Quickie: http://feeds.thetimes.co.uk/timescrossword/20140616/178/ Tracy’s two most recent puzzles were very easy but this one has a little more depth to it … Read more “Quick Cryptic No. 71 by Tracy”
Mephisto 2806 by Tim Moorey – Hurricane – What Hurricane?
I found this quite difficult with some excellent wordplay, misdirections and a good deal of looking up in C We have one rather obscure figure from mythology and one minor celeb who is well known … Read more “Mephisto 2806 by Tim Moorey – Hurricane – What Hurricane?”
Sunday Times 4593 by Dean Mayer
16:30 on the club timer. A gentle, relatively vanilla offering from Dean this week. Nothing wrong with that, of course: his puzzles needn’t be exquisite torture every time, and I had a bit of a … Read more “Sunday Times 4593 by Dean Mayer”
Times Jumbo 1094
I found this fairly straightforward and certainly easier than the last two I’ve blogged on (1084 and 1089). The only clue that gave me real trouble was 25dn, and yet again that was because of … Read more “Times Jumbo 1094”
Saturday Times 25807 (7th June)
Solving time a fairly brisk 12:47, even more so as it took me a few minutes to get going with it. Some strange goings -on for the Times, more CD’s than usual and the linked … Read more “Saturday Times 25807 (7th June)”
Quick Cryptic No. 70 by Orpheus – European flavour with regular ingredients
This seems to me to be a notch more difficult than Wednesday’s quickie, it’s a good work-out using some frequently occurring crossword clue-bits, as we shall see. Across 1 INTENDED – At home = IN, … Read more “Quick Cryptic No. 70 by Orpheus – European flavour with regular ingredients”
Times 25812
45 minutes for this reasonably straightforward offering. There are a few mathematical/geometrical references but nothing too arty-farty nor even any cricket as far as I can see, which is certainly a rarity. Whilst solving I … Read more “Times 25812”
25811 What soubriquet would you give to the puzzlin’, solvin’, bloggin’ bore?
A smidge under 20 minutes for this, working steadily around the grid, encountering something of uniformity of difficulty where even the tiddlers put up about the same resistance as their longer sistren. There were things … Read more “25811 What soubriquet would you give to the puzzlin’, solvin’, bloggin’ bore?”