I found this puzzle to be of average difficulty though I can’t adequately explain 8D – any suggestions would be most welcome. 22A and 13D might not be words that solvers bandy about in everyday … Read more “Quick Cryptic 385 by Teazel”
Month: August 2015
Times 26191 – A short dash after an easy day!
Solving time: 17 minutes Music: Bach, Brandenburg Concertos, Britten/ECO A very quick solve, and truly a biffer’s paradise. Once you get a few crossing letters, you can pretty much roll with the literals. I just … Read more “Times 26191 – A short dash after an easy day!”
Sunday Times 4656 by Dean Mayer – The Sun Always Shines On Bill Withers
18:47. Another very enjoyable puzzle from Dean. I thought this was a relatively gentle offering by his standards, but others seem to have found it a bit harder. Perhaps it helps that I’m of the … Read more “Sunday Times 4656 by Dean Mayer – The Sun Always Shines On Bill Withers”
Mephisto 2869 – Tim Moorey
Solving time : Rather a neat little offering this week I thought. There is a strange coincidence here, and maybe I am missing something – it’s not his birthday, maybe the anniversary of a significant … Read more “Mephisto 2869 – Tim Moorey”
Saturday Times 26184 (22nd August)
Solving time 12:27, so another fairly gentle one (unlike this week’s, which was a half-hour monster which I submitted with an error). Anyway, I have to be elsewhere shortly, so without further ado here’s what … Read more “Saturday Times 26184 (22nd August)”
Jumbo 1163
I must confess I don’t remember much about solving this one, and there was not much discussion on the Crossword Club Forum so I will just present my analysis of the solutions. Please let me … Read more “Jumbo 1163”
Times 26,189: Clarence Drowns Again
Ashamed to say that I submitted this with one error – I’d done this basically back-to-back with yesterday’s puzzle, after a day returning from Wales on the train with two tired and fractious tots, and … Read more “Times 26,189: Clarence Drowns Again”
Quick Cryptic No 384 by Corelli – or maybe not so quick
I did this immediately after a main TC puzzle and I have to say it wasn’t the easy 5 minute write-in these things used to be; like last Friday’s, it seemed to have a good … Read more “Quick Cryptic No 384 by Corelli – or maybe not so quick”
Quick Cryptic 383 by Orpheus
Right, it’s now 11:00 and nothing has appeared so here’s the blog. This one took me 9 minutes so I scored it as the easiest for a while – since Joker’s contribution last Thursday. As … Read more “Quick Cryptic 383 by Orpheus”
26188 I don’t want to go on the cart.
By a considerable distance the hardest puzzle I have contended with for a very long time, taking over three qaurters of an hour. I hope that’s because the cluing is truly stretching, and not because … Read more “26188 I don’t want to go on the cart.”