Solving time: straightforward. Morning all. The Don is here today with a puzzle that is at the softer end of the scale, and will encourage some of the newer solvers. Nothing too stressful here, although … Read more “Times Quick Crossword No 174 by Izetti – brought to you in association with the General Synod”
Month: November 2014
Times 25937 – people, places and things
Solving time : 10:16, which at the moment has me fourth on the Club Timer. It seemed to me there were a lot of proper nouns, names, places, titles in this one, so it may … Read more “Times 25937 – people, places and things”
Quick Cryptic No 173 by Dazzler
Interesting mix of quite a few fairly straightforward ones, and a couple of decidedly tricky affairs (at least, I thought 23ac and 18dn were real doozies…). A bit of cricket knowledge helps, and those of … Read more “Quick Cryptic No 173 by Dazzler”
Times 25936 – heat one puzzle one
“This puzzle was solved within 60 mins by 43 of the 74 competitors in Heat One of the 2014 Times Crossword Championship” says the headline. (A bit misleading; you also solve 2 other puzzles within … Read more “Times 25936 – heat one puzzle one”
Times 25,935
12:04 on the Club timer, which puts me within my daily target of 2 Magoos, so I was clearly on the right wavelength – a sprinkling of classics and religion gave this an old-fashioned feel … Read more “Times 25,935”
Quick Cryptic No 172 by Mara
Had trouble finding the crossword earlier today – I was trying the correct address but not getting anywhere but thanks to jackkt for his help nevertheless. The link is now working fine. More than likely … Read more “Quick Cryptic No 172 by Mara”
Times 25934 – Everything’s bottoms, isn’t it?
As easy as it gets [on edit – for me – I seem to have been in the zone today like that bloke who tonked the Aussies about for the world’s fastest ton]. 15 minutes. … Read more “Times 25934 – Everything’s bottoms, isn’t it?”
Quick Cryptic 171 by Joker
After several weeks without incident the id code for today’s Quickie is out of sequence so I am posting the url here in case solvers are having problems finding it: http://feeds.thetimes.co.uk/timescrossword/20141103/307/ This one took me … Read more “Quick Cryptic 171 by Joker”
Mephisto 2826 by Don Manley
A very easy puzzle Across 2 CRIMINATORY – CRI-MINATORY; CRI=Charles Rex 1 = monarch in Civil War; threatening=MINATORY; accusative is definition; 11 VEERING – VEE-RING; VEE=V; V-sign=Harvey Smith; 13 ELDIN – ELD-IN; of bygone age=ELD; … Read more “Mephisto 2826 by Don Manley”
Sunday Times 4613 by Jeff Pearce
9:40 for what is largely a plain vanilla puzzle. There’s one I can’t explain though, which is a bit embarrassing. Doubtless someone will be along to help shortly. Across 1 Author‘s strong feelings in intros … Read more “Sunday Times 4613 by Jeff Pearce”