Bob was in great form with this outing, giving us no less than three well-crafted &lits (some puzzles don’t even give us a slightly clumsy one), and some diabolically devious cluing (21 and 2D stand … Read more “Sunday Times Cryptic No 4893, 8 III 2020, by Robert Price — Literally amazing”
Day: 14th March 2020
Times Cryptic No 27606 – Saturday, 07 March 2020. Of imaginary beasts and fanciful fractions.
This puzzle took me several times longer than the week before. No walk in the park here! I wrote in 1ac at a glance, and then there was a long interlude before I solved 20ac. … Read more “Times Cryptic No 27606 – Saturday, 07 March 2020. Of imaginary beasts and fanciful fractions.”
Times Cryptic Jumbo 1427 – 29th February
Well adult elephants can’t jump, but we have a leap Jumbo today. A middle-of-the-road (or maybe even easier) difficulty Jumbo, I thought. It took me less than 40 minutes of which about 10 were on … Read more “Times Cryptic Jumbo 1427 – 29th February”