One of the best Jumbos I can remember blogging, this – quite often there’s the feeling that a Jumbo setter might have (completely understandably, really!) gone into churn mode to get the job done, but … Read more “Times Cryptic Jumbo 1339: Cracking Toast”
Day: 8th September 2018
Times Cryptic No 27132 – Saturday, 01 September 2018. Don’t talk of clues – show me!
I found this puzzle a workout! About a third of the clues were “regular weight” and went in in 10 minutes or so, then I spent another hour or more looking at clue after clue … Read more “Times Cryptic No 27132 – Saturday, 01 September 2018. Don’t talk of clues – show me!”
Summer Bank Holiday Jumbo 1340
This one required an average solving time but it felt harder than that – there were several answers that I had to biff and then reverse-engineer the parsing. FOI 5A, LOI 47D. I very much liked … Read more “Summer Bank Holiday Jumbo 1340”