This is Tim Moorey’s last crossword for the Sunday Times, so it is rather fitting that I fell hook, line and sinker for the trap he set the unwary solver, allowing Tim to 5dn as … Read more “Sunday Times 4672 by Tim Moorey – so long and thanks for all the 14ac”
Month: December 2015
Saturday Times 26280 (12th Dec)
A fairly sluggish 16:09 for this, which puts me out of the top 100 on the leaderboard (although as more than half of them are neutrinos that doesn’t mean a lot!) I remember putting TABLE … Read more “Saturday Times 26280 (12th Dec)”
Jumbo 1180
On the easy side though there were a few words I didn’t know as well as a few that only seemed vaguely familiar – fortunately in all cases the wordplay didn’t offer any obvious alternatives. … Read more “Jumbo 1180”
Times 26,285 A Perfect Circle
One of the benefits of having to write out the workings of a puzzle in full every week is getting a real sense of its construction, I adjudge this to be a very elegantly clued … Read more “Times 26,285 A Perfect Circle”
Quick Cryptic 464 by Hurley
Some nice anagrams and surface readings here, I thought, and good to see a different Chinese dynasty from the more usual Ming appearing. I was slightly misled by trying to find a particular country for … Read more “Quick Cryptic 464 by Hurley”
Quick Cryptic 463 by Tracy
This one took me 9 minutes after a rather slow start and there were several clues I needed to pass over until I had a checker or two in place to jog my brain. Access … Read more “Quick Cryptic 463 by Tracy”
Times 26284 – I dreamed I was eating a giant 1AC and then I woke up choking on my pillow
Solving time : 7:57, which at about an hour and a half after the puzzle appeared is good enough for the top of the leaderboard, though I suspect not for long. I don’t know if … Read more “Times 26284 – I dreamed I was eating a giant 1AC and then I woke up choking on my pillow”
Championship 2015, Grand Final, puzzle one.
Having survived the six qualifiers, blog-wise, I was preparing myself to face steeper slopes with the Final Three. However I found this one no trickier than the two toughest of the preliminary puzzles (the crampons … Read more “Championship 2015, Grand Final, puzzle one.”
Quick Cryptic 462 by Rongo
Thought this was a fine QC offering from Rongo, with a good mix of some “entry level” clues and some trickier stuff (11ac in particular required a bit of working out). All in all, very … Read more “Quick Cryptic 462 by Rongo”
Times 26,282
This puzzle took a very sharp upward curve in terms of difficulty from my POV. Straight in with the nice long 1ac to give me a start, and a few other early gimmes left me … Read more “Times 26,282”