A middle of the road Saturday challenge, I thought. I did it in bits and pieces, and don’t have an aggregate time to report. My LOI was 19dn, where I had a blind spot thinking … Read more “Times Cryptic No 27240 – Saturday, 05 January 2019. The civility of servants.”
Month: January 2019
Quick Cryptic 1264 by Felix
Pretty straightforward today from Felix. I don’t know how often he sets but I wonder if there’s a story behind the self-referential 2dn. Quite a lot of anagrams (7), some clunkier than others. LOI 12dn, … Read more “Quick Cryptic 1264 by Felix”
Times 27,245: Cigarettes & Alcohol
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”
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?”
Times 27243 – The final Final TCC puzzle from 2018. Nil desperandum.
After last week’s toughie with the SNITCH at a high of 178, I was expecting even more pain with this. Maybe I was just lucky to be on a wavelength, because only 7 of 24 … Read more “Times 27243 – The final Final TCC puzzle from 2018. Nil desperandum.”
Times Quick Cryptic No 1262 by Oink
Finished this one in 11’40” while looking over paint choices for a new apartment. Several hidden words and a lot of anagrams, so not a lot of trouble here. I was held up mainly by … Read more “Times Quick Cryptic No 1262 by Oink”
Times Cryptic 27242
I completed this in 24 minutes, one of my fastest times for solving a puzzle on a blogging day. It would have been quicker but for a hold-up at the very end in the SW … Read more “Times Cryptic 27242”
Times Quick Cryptic 1261 by Tracy
In rather a hurry today so expect typos etc. I took 14 mins which seems heavy weather having now looked back at it. Thanks Tracy – and don’t mind my GR at 23ac – bit … Read more “Times Quick Cryptic 1261 by Tracy”
Times 27241 – Et Tu, Duodecime!
A puzzle with enough quirk to keep things interesting, with one word ready to take its place in the competition for ugliest word in English alongside moron, bigot, numeronym (thanks to Paul in the comments) … Read more “Times 27241 – Et Tu, Duodecime!”