A very nice little Friday puzzle with a combination of above averagely devious wordplay and unwieldy vocab (I’m looking at you, PROGNOSTIC and PERSECUTEE) to keep the solver sweating. I took a little less than … Read more “Times 27,245: Cigarettes & Alcohol”
Day: 10th January 2019
Times Quick Cryptic No 1263 by Pedro
A few bits of slightly chewy parsing from Pedro this morning, together with a couple of foreign or adopted words / phrases, but nothing too taxing on the GK front. I completed this, fully parsed … Read more “Times Quick Cryptic No 1263 by Pedro”
Times 27244 – what happened to Les One through Five?
Solving time: 11:03, which is pretty close to my average time, though I think I was on to a few lesser used techniques that popped up in here. I was a little nervous about 13 … Read more “Times 27244 – what happened to Les One through Five?”