Month: September 2019

There’s nothing *too* elaborate about the cluing in this puzzle, providing one can handle multiple flipped containment indicators (knife left cuts, &c), but the surfaces are all so smooth that it is quite often difficult … Read more “Times 27,449: Surface Pro”

Time taken: 10:24 I rather enjoyed this puzzle, a very good one for fans of tricky wordplay, and some crafty definitions. At the time of writing up, with the puzzle having been out about three … Read more “Times 27448: Is 18 down a little more than deyard?”

I found this a curate’s egg of a puzzle; about half the clues seemed easy and flew in all across the grid, then it took another twenty minutes to polish it off with several not … Read more “Times 27447 – Oh the Times, oh the goings on; Cicero had it all right.”

Solving time: 41 minutes. I found this one quite straightforward. Although there were a couple of obscurities they didn’t delay me unduly. As usual definitions are underlined in bold italics, {deletions and substitutions are in curly … Read more “Times Cryptic 27446”

Tricky for a Monday this. I staggered along until I was done by 25a, where I made the schoolboy mistake of forgetting that a certain Kipling poem is the cruciverbal equivalent of a Haggard novel. … Read more “Times 27445 – If the poet doesn’t get you, the rod will”