Struggled with this one for some reason, as I stopped the clock in 29:49, easily my slowest of the year so far. I can’t remember why now, as they all seemed very gettable as I … Read more “Saturday Times 26016 (7th Feb)”
Month: February 2015
Quick Crytpic No 244 by Tracy
Our blogger for today, william_j_s, is unfortunately competely tied up at work. Being on a roll after filling in yesterday, here is my latest instalment. Hoping that you aren’t getting too bored with my scratchings … Read more “Quick Crytpic No 244 by Tracy”
Times 26,021: “The Wisest Are The Most Annoyed At The Loss Of Time”
(Alarm bells went off for the above online “Dante quotation”, as I couldn’t find any immediate trace of it in the original Italian, or any sense of its origin, but it seemed too appropriate to … Read more “Times 26,021: “The Wisest Are The Most Annoyed At The Loss Of Time””
Quick Cryptic No 243 by Flamande
I agreed to stand in for macavity123 on 26th Feb and 6th March but there’s every chance I’ve messed the dates up. So with apologies for being late – and that you have only the … Read more “Quick Cryptic No 243 by Flamande”
Times 26020 – do we have to do this three times daily?
Solving time : 11:06 – and hooray for wordplay! There were a number of entries in here that I had to piece together from the wordplay due to unusual words or crafty definitions. Thankfully the … Read more “Times 26020 – do we have to do this three times daily?”
Quick Cryptic No 242 by Joker
Thanks to Joker for a very enjoyable puzzle – not too tricky but plenty to keep you on your toes, I thought. Bit of a Celtic fringe here today with clues based around Wales, Cornwall … Read more “Quick Cryptic No 242 by Joker”
Times 26019 – good clean fun
In spite of the usual ‘my blog day’ nerves, I enjoyed this one and got there in twenty minutes or so, with the bottom half going in earlier than the top, and a few more … Read more “Times 26019 – good clean fun”
Times 26,018
17:17, so the second tricky-ish one in a row on blogging day. As I wrote the last one in, having filled it in with an unlikely ‘Z’, I thought “Bah, I should have spotted the … Read more “Times 26,018”
Quick Cryptic No 241 by Orpheus
Some challenging vocabulary for which the definitions given are from Collins. 19ac required a (fortunately correct) guess between the two usual types of graduate. Not many went in from the definition alone so the wordplay … Read more “Quick Cryptic No 241 by Orpheus”
Times 26017 – A Most Quirkful Offering
This rather appealed to me as it had something about it I rarely run across in the Monday slot – a little oddness. Okay, more than a little. Despite messing up 11a (which is Eminently … Read more “Times 26017 – A Most Quirkful Offering”