Month: November 2019

I bustled through this in an efficient 6.5 minutes but this may have been a wavelength thing – all the right possibilities occurred to me at all the right times, but looking at the parsings … Read more “Times 27,509: You May Take Our Lives, But You’ll Never Take Our 3 Down!”

Solving time: 11:43. Greetings from the Altanta Hartsfield Airport, where I am waiting for a plane to somewhere warm and dry (I’m taking part in this illustrious tournament). I was very worried when I submitted … Read more “Times 27508 – an igi-bidgi crossword”

I found this fairly easy going, starting with 1a and 1d, always a good plan if they spring to mind quickly. A mild ER followed at the definition of 1a, I thought it was closer … Read more “Times 27507 – not ‘1 across’d for too long”

My solving time was about an hour but there was nothing particularly difficult here. How did you all do? As usual definitions are underlined in bold italics, {deletions and substitutions are in curly brackets} and … Read more “Times Cryptic 27506”

For those who were worried that Monday has become the new Friday, this was very much a throwback to the old days (like a fortnight or so ago). With all its recent bells and whistles … Read more “Times 27505 – Schindler’s Missed?”