This really was as easy as it gets, and I would be surprised if there were not a few PBs flying around. There are though four or five place names, so I suppose that if … Read more “Times 27109 – Monday Quickie”
Month: August 2018
Times Quick Cryptic 1150 by Flamande
This one took me 9 minutes, a welcome return to form after three tricky puzzles in a row towards the end of last week. I think most of it is straightforward but that may depend … Read more “Times Quick Cryptic 1150 by Flamande”
Mephisto 3022 – Don Manley. Ximenes Remembered.
A trip down memory lane for me caused by 30A. The clue has two possible answers, a simple obvious one and a more difficult one. I wrote in the simple one and then had to … Read more “Mephisto 3022 – Don Manley. Ximenes Remembered.”
Sunday Times Cryptic 4809, by Dean Mayer — I’m Telling You
A few weeks ago, French citoyen Christophe Février acquired, for €8,000, a mid-nineteenth-century edition (for which Lady Gaga had once made a bid) of Dr. Joseph-Ignace Guillotin’s humane invention. For a month or so now there has … Read more “Sunday Times Cryptic 4809, by Dean Mayer — I’m Telling You”
Times Cryptic No 27102 – Saturday, 28 July 2018. Normal service will now resume.
After the struggles of the preceding Thursday and Friday’s puzzles, this Saturday puzzle was a return to what we expect. It wasn’t easy, but had nothing to frighten the horses, or indeed to unseat the … Read more “Times Cryptic No 27102 – Saturday, 28 July 2018. Normal service will now resume.”
Times Cryptic Jumbo No 1334: Crossword Addicts on the Way to PDX
A very fun and tidily put together crossword that I am blogging on a train between Seattle and Portland, Oregon – truly we are living in the future, or up to eight hours in the … Read more “Times Cryptic Jumbo No 1334: Crossword Addicts on the Way to PDX”
Times 27,107: The Battle in Seattle
An abbreviated blog from me tonight that will scarcely do justice to this fabulously intricate puzzle – I’m in Seattle, drinking wine with friends and watching Jaws with one eye while solving with the other, … Read more “Times 27,107: The Battle in Seattle”
Times Quick Cryptic No 1149 by Orpheus
Hello all. Well here is, I think, a quite testing Friday QC from Orpheus, with a smattering of quite chewy clues among the more easily digestible standard fare. We have a reverse cryptic, a couple … Read more “Times Quick Cryptic No 1149 by Orpheus”
Times Quick Cryptic No 1148 by Tracy
Middle of the road from Tracy today. I was held to a couple of minutes over my target thanks to a mental block at 1ac: I had all but five done by the 6 minute … Read more “Times Quick Cryptic No 1148 by Tracy”
Times Cryptic No 27106 Thursday, 2 August 2018 The multitudinous seas incarnadine
By dint of (almost) skipping typo watch, I scrambled in just one second under 30 minutes, but I’m not sure why I made (for me) rather heavy weather of this one. For the most part, … Read more “Times Cryptic No 27106 Thursday, 2 August 2018 The multitudinous seas incarnadine”