Another neat puzzle. Some from the Style Monitoring Section (definitely not from The Ministry of Truth!) thought it might have been the work of the same setter as the week before. That thought didn’t occur … Read more “Times Cryptic No 27426 – Saturday 10 August 2019. Big brother is watching you.”
Month: August 2019
Times Quick Cryptic No 1419 by Orpheus – How’s yer mother off for dripping?
I found this a nice middle-of-the-road difficulty puzzle from Orpheus today as it took me just under my target time of 5 1/2 minutes. We are treated to some lovely smooth surfaces and a smattering of none-too-obscure … Read more “Times Quick Cryptic No 1419 by Orpheus – How’s yer mother off for dripping?”
Keats And Yeats Are On Your Side, Oscar Wilde Is On Mine
I mostly really enjoyed this proper Friday fare, with its nods Shakespearean, Shavian and Orwellian and its take-no-prisoners attitude to cluing classical words and phrases with anagrams… lots of this kind of thing in the … Read more “Keats And Yeats Are On Your Side, Oscar Wilde Is On Mine”
Times Quick Cryptic No 1418 by Izetti
Another tricky enough QC today – I did the last three QCs in a row and took pretty much bang on 15, 9 and 12 minutes for Tue/Wed/today. So halfway between tricky and average by … Read more “Times Quick Cryptic No 1418 by Izetti”
27430 Thursday, 15 August 2019 The way the world ends
While this continued my run this week of being in the 15/16/17 range at 17.22 it felt a lot meatier with a lot of the wordplay needing a lot of untangling. I took time to … Read more “27430 Thursday, 15 August 2019 The way the world ends”
Times 27429 – the Marmite crossword?
I loved this one. It’s quirky. Some of you probably hated it. It’s that kind of puzzle, I think. No dodgy words, a few smart definitions (6a, 13d, 17d for example), and only a couple … Read more “Times 27429 – the Marmite crossword?”
Times Quick Cryptic 1417 by Oink
This isn’t the daftly easy one I was hoping for after several days of tricky puzzles, but it wasn’t too difficult either. Only 10ac may be an unfamiliar word to new solvers (it comes up … Read more “Times Quick Cryptic 1417 by Oink”
Times Cryptic 27428
I’ve no solving time to offer as I dozed off for a while with barely half of the grid completed. I had started well in the NW corner and thought it was going to be very easy but … Read more “Times Cryptic 27428”
Times Quick Cryptic 1416 by Mara
I wasn’t at the races with this one or if I was, backed all the wrong horses. When I eventually finished (rejoining the SCC with 19 minutes), I still struggled with some parsings. 14dn was … Read more “Times Quick Cryptic 1416 by Mara”
Times 27427 – ‘Til the girls go home
Music: Bach Violin Concerto #2, Gidon KremerTime: 25 minutes Another easy Monday – if you have a lot of obscure knowledge sitting in your brain, that is! If you don’t, you may have to either … Read more “Times 27427 – ‘Til the girls go home”