Hey, I had a McLean puzzle last go-round! Well, Biddlecombe has explained what happened there… This was great fun, despite the absence of any really unusual vocabulary, nothing previously unknown to work out strictly via … Read more “Sunday Times Cryptic 4885, 12 I 2020, by David McLean — Needling Boris”
Day: 18th January 2020
Times Cryptic No 27558 – Saturday January 11th, 2020. Another pleasant midsummer Saturday.
Times Cryptic No 27558 – Saturday January 11th, 2020. Another pleasant midsummer Saturday. The setters continue to be gentle in the holiday season. I rolled through this one at a steady pace. Strangely my LOI … Read more “Times Cryptic No 27558 – Saturday January 11th, 2020. Another pleasant midsummer Saturday.”
Jumbo 1418
Happy New Year, if a little belated. This one was a fair test for New Year’s Day, although as much effort went into parsing some of the clues as actually determining the solutions. 49A and … Read more “Jumbo 1418”