Solving time: 20 minutes Music: Rachmaninov, Symphony #1, Previn/LSO I completed this in 20 minutes on paper, mostly biffing the answers as the literals were quite obvious in this one. But in order to resolve … Read more “Times 26557 – The goodbye-to-BST biff-fest”
Day: 30th October 2016
Mephisto 2930 – Paul McKenna-Donn Reynolds and the Nicaraguan Resistance
A mixture of the easy and the rather more opaque. I seemed to spend more time than usual checking entries in Chambers to support meanings in clues (eg 11A). Also, I’d never heard of the … Read more “Mephisto 2930 – Paul McKenna-Donn Reynolds and the Nicaraguan Resistance”
Sunday Times 4717 by David McLean
Thoroughly enjoyed this offering from Harry, which I tackled in a couple of sittings of about an hour each – which by my standards is not too bad for this particular setter, who I generally … Read more “Sunday Times 4717 by David McLean”