Greetings from Canada. Actually as I write this I am sitting at home in London, but by the time I post it I will be sitting beside a lake in Muskoka nursing a Caesar, or … Read more “Sunday Times 4599 (20 July) by Dean Mayer”
Month: July 2014
Saturday Times 25843 (19th July)
Solving time 24:15 for this one, but that doesn’t represent the degree of difficulty. I had a bad week last week, rarely getting in under 20 minutes for some reason. Plenty to like about this … Read more “Saturday Times 25843 (19th July)”
Times Jumbo 1100 (12 Jul 2014)
Solving time: 1:43:07 Nothing too taxing in this one. Quite a pleasant stroll through. Nothing much to say about it. cd = cryptic def., dd = double def., rev = reversal, homophones are written in … Read more “Times Jumbo 1100 (12 Jul 2014)”
Quick Cryptic No 100 by Joker
So here we are 20 weeks on and a century of quickies. They’re still some way short of the usual difficulty of the main cryptic, of course, there are no obscure words for the solutions … Read more “Quick Cryptic No 100 by Joker”
Times 25848
This one started out as a slow but steady solve and I seemed to be heading for about 40 minutes, but time slipped away and I became bogged down with 27ac outstanding and the whole … Read more “Times 25848”
Club Monthly 20166 July 2014 – misplaced Capitals edition
Solving Time: Well, this took me quite a long time.. dunno really, but might have been as much as two hours by the time it was all parsed and put to bed. However I followed … Read more “Club Monthly 20166 July 2014 – misplaced Capitals edition”
Times Quick Cryptic No 99 by Corelli
Hi everyone Apologies for the late posting. Trip to doctor’s just to check things ok for my holiday tomorrow held me up. Quite a tricky puzzle from Corelli today, certainly at the harder end of … Read more “Times Quick Cryptic No 99 by Corelli”
25847 Nocturne in slightly flat
Around 14 minutes (you’ll just have to take my word for it). My never-lets-you-down BT broadband threw one of its hissy fits just as I pressed submit, lost all the data and had to be … Read more “25847 Nocturne in slightly flat”
Quick Cryptic No. 98 by Rongo
Sorry for delay. I arrived at the polyclinique for my 6 monthly going-slowly-blind check-up, to find the space now occupied by a ‘gynaecologiste’, which was not of much use to me. Eventually I discoverd the … Read more “Quick Cryptic No. 98 by Rongo”
Times Crossword 25,846 – 23 July 2014
Solving Time: 32 minutes. I found this rather hard, partly because of some stretching vocab (eg 8, 13, 14dn) and some rather convoluted wordplay. These aren’t criticisms though, I enjoyed it very much A somewhat … Read more “Times Crossword 25,846 – 23 July 2014”