I’ve had some difficulty with Myrtilus’s excellent creations but solved this one smoothly enough on the Hudson Line train within the hour between Yonkers and New Hamburg. Parsing was quite another matter thanks to some … Read more “TLS Crossword 1138 by Myrtilus – August 12, 2016”
Day: 1st September 2016
Times Quick Cryptic No 648 by Corelli
I enjoyed this – nice devices and lots of good surface readings made it a smooth and satisfying solve. A minute over my target ten with 19d unparsed. Had I not been blogging, I would … Read more “Times Quick Cryptic No 648 by Corelli”
Times Cryptic 26506 – September 1, 2016 At last, a cure for insomnia!
I struggled through drooping eyelids through this, untroubled by any inkling of excitement for 25 minutes*. So many of the clues were of the “stick this into/onto that” variety, so many indeed that I ran … Read more “Times Cryptic 26506 – September 1, 2016 At last, a cure for insomnia!”