I thought at first this was going to be tough, not getting 1 across straight away and treating the following clues with rather more suspicion than they warranted. Once I got going, though, I realised … Read more “27610 Thursday, 12 March 2020 You remind me of the babe”
Month: March 2020
Times 275609 – the Final final one, finally.
Here we are in mid March (almost) and, three months on, I’m blogging the last of last year’s TCC puzzles, the one which finally decided that Mark Goodliffe a.k.a. magoo once again held the big … Read more “Times 275609 – the Final final one, finally.”
Times Quick Cryptic 1567 by Orpheus
This had a familiar feel about it mostly, perhaps because I’m finally tuning in to Orpheus’s wavelength, or perhaps because the clues are all composed of pretty standard QC fare. Apart from an unkown region … Read more “Times Quick Cryptic 1567 by Orpheus”
Times Cryptic 27608
Solving time: 33 minutes with 2dn and 14ac being responsible for missing my half-hour target. As usual definitions are underlined in bold italics, {deletions and substitutions are in curly brackets} and [anagrinds, containment, reversal and … Read more “Times Cryptic 27608”
Times Quick Cryptic 1566 by Joker
LHS filled in first with a bit of a biff fest towards the bottom. Then the rest completed a little more slowly, but still steadily, leaving me with a time happily within target (for a … Read more “Times Quick Cryptic 1566 by Joker”
Times 27607 – “Sea-borderers, disjoin’d by Neptune’s might…..
Time: 31 minutesMusic: Pictures at an Exhibition, Leibowitz/RPO This puzzle was not as easy as I first supposed, primarily because of various obscure usages that I will have to research for the blog. I had … Read more “Times 27607 – “Sea-borderers, disjoin’d by Neptune’s might…..”
QC 1565 by Teazel
I think this coronavirus thing isn’t just physically infecting loads of people worldwide. In my house it also seems to be infecting our very thought processes. As I was sitting down to write this for … Read more “QC 1565 by Teazel”
Sunday Times 4892 by Dean Mayer – déjà vu
14:49. This one started very easy (1ac went straight in) but then got trickier, culminating in a very long pause at the end over 3dn. When I eventually figured out what was going on, it … Read more “Sunday Times 4892 by Dean Mayer – déjà vu”
Mephisto 3105 – Paul McKenna
Greetings all, Thanks for everyone who helped me with not being able to use the blog generator template – it turned out that something had changed in copying and pasting from the website where … Read more “Mephisto 3105 – Paul McKenna”
Times Cryptic No 27600 – Saturday, 29 February 2020. A run in the park.
This week’s puzzle felt like a speed test. 1ac went in at a glance, and then each helper letter seemed to lead to another answer. So, I was finished quite quickly, although I admit I … Read more “Times Cryptic No 27600 – Saturday, 29 February 2020. A run in the park.”