Another impressive exercise in dictionary-digging, with the spelling required for 21ac enough to make the most hardened solver blanch, and 11ac recalling the headiest days of the much-mourned TLS Crossword blogs. I enjoyed the mad … Read more “Monthly Club Special 20,228: Be The Change You Want To See In Your Grid”
Day: 30th September 2019
Times 27469 – Not stuff you’d find Marvin, Borgnine and Bronson countenancing, methinks
With its weird exercise routine (‘a household phrase’ in the 1920s, as Pinter puts it) and its Irish lake isle, this is by no mean your average Monday offering, taking me in excess of 40 … Read more “Times 27469 – Not stuff you’d find Marvin, Borgnine and Bronson countenancing, methinks”
Times Quick Cryptic 1450 by Orpheus
Solving time: 9 minutes. I found this pretty straightforward. As usual definitions are underlined in bold italics, {deletions and substitutions are in curly brackets} and [anagrinds, containment, reversal and other indicators in square ones] Across … Read more “Times Quick Cryptic 1450 by Orpheus”