Definitely a notch or two up on your average Monday, with some nice misdirection and one or two clues where the definition is not at the end you might expect. Feeling as bemused at times … Read more “Times 26209 – My goddess, my dear creature, my dearest life”
Month: September 2015
Quick Cryptic 400 by Bart
This being Quick Cryptic number 400 and with a new setter on duty I thought we might be in for a theme or a Nina to mark the occasion, but it appears to be just … Read more “Quick Cryptic 400 by Bart”
Sunday Times 4659 by Dean Mayer
A list of the Top Ten Gags at the Edinburgh Fringe was doing the rounds recently, which included “They’re always telling me to live my dreams. But I don’t want to be naked in an … Read more “Sunday Times 4659 by Dean Mayer”
Mephisto 2872 by Tim Moorey – Airlines and Alphabets
The last Mephisto that I blogged involved a considerable time spent trying to discover why a clue was half in French, half in English. I learned from the Editor that this was because the setter … Read more “Mephisto 2872 by Tim Moorey – Airlines and Alphabets”
Times Jumbo 1167 – placeholder
Blog will appear in the next 24 hours, at some point when I’m not watching rugby.
Saturday Times 26202 (12th Sept) – meet Nina’s parents!
Solving time 9:29 (including at least a minute spent at the end on 19ac), so a pretty easy puzzle despite the odd bits of Latin, chemistry and literary knowledge required. Unusually there also seems to … Read more “Saturday Times 26202 (12th Sept) – meet Nina’s parents!”
Times 26,027: Griththini
Hello friends! I’m continuing to be well off the boil solving-time wise – nothing probably that a good night’s sleep wouldn’t fix, but who has time to sleep when there are crosswords to do? – … Read more “Times 26,027: Griththini”
Quick Cryptic No 399 by Mara – a tricky quickie
Maybe I was not thinking clearly, but this ‘quickie’ took me longer (12 minutes) than last Monday’s proper Times Cryptic; not least because I’d made a screen capture and printed it out such that the … Read more “Quick Cryptic No 399 by Mara – a tricky quickie”
Times Quick Cryptic No 398 by Izetti
Hello everyone Apologies for being AWOL for a couple of weeks, a scheduled holiday turned into other things and of course, I forgot to tell Headmaster so I have duly completed my lines and removed … Read more “Times Quick Cryptic No 398 by Izetti”
26206 Can’t be Sven, Bjorn or Agnetha, surely?
My time of 28.57 suggests (to me, at any rate) that this was a tricky one, though the presence of high-scoring Scrabble letters all over the grid reduces the choices more than somewhat for those … Read more “26206 Can’t be Sven, Bjorn or Agnetha, surely?”