Solving time 10:38, so on the easier side. This setter likes the single-letter removal wordplay device – I counted 8 instances in this puzzle, but apart from that it was very tight with hardly a … Read more “Saturday Times 26226 (10th Oct)”
Month: October 2015
Times 26,231: Moriturus Te Bloggo
A post-midnight solve for me again as I did this one after coming home from an evening of very clubbable bangers at the Brixton Academy courtesy of Jamie xx – or Already That Is Twenty, … Read more “Times 26,231: Moriturus Te Bloggo”
Quick Cryptic No 419 by Flamande
No quibbles with this pleasant puzzle, nothing obscure, and for once I re-entered it into the online grid to check I hadn’t entered any answers wrongly. Across 8 EXAMINE – AXE reversed, MINE = pit; … Read more “Quick Cryptic No 419 by Flamande”
Times Quick Cryptic No 418 by Dazzler
Morning all Can’t remember the last time I blogged a Dazzler Quick Cryptic. It was a most pleasant solve and definitely at the easier end of the scale. Nothing terribly complicated here, apart from 11 … Read more “Times Quick Cryptic No 418 by Dazzler”
26230 In which I find the setter a giver of grave ire test. It’s ever great.
I thought long and hard about this one, dithering at the last about the poet with two candidates in mind, stopping the clock at a fairly desperate 33.29 – not a score to trouble the … Read more “26230 In which I find the setter a giver of grave ire test. It’s ever great.”
Times 26229: One for the arts crowd
As Jimi used to say, a “slight return”, as I fill in for Pip this morning. Nothing here to frighten the horses. Though a smattering of music and literature — with a little bit of … Read more “Times 26229: One for the arts crowd”
Quick Cryptic Number 417 by Orpheus
A brief blog due to lack of time this morning. I struggled to get into this one (1ac requiring all the checkers, and not seeing 3dn for the longest of times). Plenty to get your … Read more “Quick Cryptic Number 417 by Orpheus”
Quick Cryptic No 416 by Grumpy
I’m on my travels and won’t get back to normal service until the long awaited TfTT bash in December. Comments may therefore be sparse and, in the unlikely event that wifi or time zone problems … Read more “Quick Cryptic No 416 by Grumpy”
Times 26228
My solving time was off the scale for this one, and the current small number of completed entries and times taken by regulars on the club site suggest that others are finding it difficult too. … Read more “Times 26228”
Quick Cryptic 415 by Joker
Again, apologies for the sparseness of the blog. I found this puzzle of average difficulty. I will note in passing that the HTML structure of the Quicky seems to have changed in the last 2 … Read more “Quick Cryptic 415 by Joker”