A straightforward offering from Tracy today, with maybe only 15D not commonplace vocabulary. 11D sucked me into a Wikipedia black hole from which I emerged hours later with an improved knowledge of both geography and … Read more “Quick Cryptic 365 by Tracy”
Month: August 2015
Sunday Times 4652 by Jeff Pearce
Greetings from Canada. I am writing this blog sitting by a lake listening to the call of the loons and sipping a glass of Rioja. Things could be worse. Solving conditions were rather less ideal, … Read more “Sunday Times 4652 by Jeff Pearce”
Mephisto 2865 – Don Manley
Got most of this (and almost all the left side) out without needing the dictionary, only a few holdups in the bottom right hand corner. Strange that I hadn’t heard of the climate science reference … Read more “Mephisto 2865 – Don Manley”
Times Jumbo 1159
I didn’t find this too tough, and I thought most of the actual answers were fairly well-known, but there was one word forming part of the wordplay in 1dn that was completely new to me. … Read more “Times Jumbo 1159”
Saturday Times 26160 (25th July)
Apologies for the delay in posting. Solving time 13:22, solved online for a change and scraping onto the leaderboard in 100th place – although Magoo in 6:10 is probably the best genuine time in 68th … Read more “Saturday Times 26160 (25th July)”