Solved online in 11:57, so fairly easy despite the high GK content. I suppose it’s one where you either know the words or you don’t, as there was also some tricky vocab (KABADDI, SERAI, BDELLIUM), … Read more “Saturday Times 26244 (31st Oct)”
Month: November 2015
Times 26,249: A Nod’s As Good As A Wink To A Blind Horse
Very quickly this morning as I’ve got to catch a lift up to Derbyshire where I’m partaking in a weekend of murder mystery play readthroughs including the title role in Oedipus Rex, you know, because … Read more “Times 26,249: A Nod’s As Good As A Wink To A Blind Horse”
Quick Cryptic 434 by Joker
Another Friday quickie which left me going through the alphabet to get the last one after everything else had gone in fairly easily. Even after deciding that it had to be ATOM, it took a … Read more “Quick Cryptic 434 by Joker”
Times Quick Cryptic No 433 by Grumpy – Quote Unquote….
Morning all Thanks to jacktt for stepping last week in at the last minute when I was longer at the hospital than I should have been. Back today with Grumpy and a thoroughly enjoyable puzzle … Read more “Times Quick Cryptic No 433 by Grumpy – Quote Unquote….”
Times 26248 – a self-referential pangram
Solving time : 10:32, but a lazy typo is keeping me off the leaderboard. Interesting puzzle this one, it is not too difficult, and I expect a lot of the longer answers will be susceptible … Read more “Times 26248 – a self-referential pangram”
Times Championship 2015: Prelim one, puzzle one… a gentle enough beginning
I tackled this on a sunny afternoon under “exam conditions” and was surprised to find I had finished it just with the 20 minutes, with all parsed, although 4d and 6d were from wordplay alone … Read more “Times Championship 2015: Prelim one, puzzle one… a gentle enough beginning”
Quick Cryptic No 432 by Dazzler
A fairly straightforward puzzle today, I thought, which included several “hidden” type clues – one of which I found to be particularly well disguised at 10ac. The parsing of 18ac might hold people up for … Read more “Quick Cryptic No 432 by Dazzler”
Quick Cryptic No 431 by Izetti
This is the first wifi challenge on my travels – but when you’ve got views over Lake Macquarie you don’t really need wifi – well, except to fulfil the duties of a QC blogger. Fortunately … Read more “Quick Cryptic No 431 by Izetti”
Times 26,246
I officially pronounce myself uncertain how to assess this puzzle. I started slowly, so I thought it was going to be tricky, then I had a bit of a sprint in the middle, and changed … Read more “Times 26,246”
Times 26245 – Health and Efficiency Issue
A trickier than usual Monday number, in which the right-hand side gave up its secrets before the somewhat more recalcitrant left. Lots of nice stuff, if rather a plethora of insertion-style clues, but my COD … Read more “Times 26245 – Health and Efficiency Issue”