This didn’t take an awfully long time, and what it did take was mostly taken up in MERs over just what the last 4 words of 11ac were doing, and whether TERN (when not a … Read more “Times 27,623: With A Shrug”
Month: March 2020
Times Quick Cryptic No 1578 by Izetti
I found this quite tough, and fared very similarly to yesterday’s, which is to say a DNF around the 17 minute mark, all following a bruising hour with yesterday’s 15x. I was feeling my enthusiasm … Read more “Times Quick Cryptic No 1578 by Izetti”
27622, Thursday, 26 March 2020 Having nothing else to do…
Thursday, 26 March 2020 I’ll tell you what, I haven’t done this in a mort of years, but I went straight through the clues in presented order and emerged breathless in 9.24, which included my … Read more “27622, Thursday, 26 March 2020 Having nothing else to do…”
Times 27621 – I needed a wee dram from the closed shop after this
I don’t mind hard puzzles, they can be more satisfying even if you don’t quite finish. But I found this one hard to enjoy, even if I did learn a couple of new words. It … Read more “Times 27621 – I needed a wee dram from the closed shop after this”
Times Quick Cryptic 1577 by Teazel
Very slow for me – partly because I’m a little out of practice lately, but also due to quite a lot of those crypticky sideways definitions that I’ve always been slow to twig. I probably … Read more “Times Quick Cryptic 1577 by Teazel”
Times Quick Cryptic 1576 by Felix
A lot to enjoy in this offering from Felix – particularly the acrosses in the bottom half. Nothing proved too tricky as I was all complete except for 9ac and 1dn in about 7 minutes. … Read more “Times Quick Cryptic 1576 by Felix”
Times Cryptic 27620
Solving time: 65 minutes. I found this quite chewy but with concentration and patience it all gradually came together and there was nothing here I didn’t know. As usual definitions are underlined in bold italics, … Read more “Times Cryptic 27620”
Times 27619 – Silent as the deathless gods!
Time: 27 minutesMusic: Beethoven Piano Concerto 2, Fleisher/Szell/Cleveland Orchestra I thought this was going to be difficult at first, as I could not see any obvious answers in the top half of the grid. Skipping … Read more “Times 27619 – Silent as the deathless gods!”
QC1575 by Orpheus
Obviously there is so much happening at the moment that I don’t have much time for a preamble. This was a medium difficulty puzzle and I can’t say much more than that as my eyeseight … Read more “QC1575 by Orpheus”
Sunday Times 4894 by David McLean
9:40. Greetings from a quarantined household. One of my kids developed a persistent dry cough a little under a week ago (he’s fine – the cough disappeared without any other symptoms) so we’ve been confined … Read more “Sunday Times 4894 by David McLean”