After about half an hour, with only a third of the grid filled in, I realized I’d have to bring in Chambers fairly early on. There is some tricky stuff here, and some obscure words … Read more “Mephisto 3124 – One for the books”
Day: 18th July 2020
Sunday Times Cryptic No 4911 by Robert Price — DIVERSIONARY tactics
Nothing very exotic here, though I wasn’t sure when working this that I’d ever seen, let alone eaten, a DRUPE (turns out this is a kind of fruit, not a specific variety). Some of the … Read more “Sunday Times Cryptic No 4911 by Robert Price — DIVERSIONARY tactics”
Times Cryptic No 27714 – Saturday, 11 July 2020. All porkers watered and ready …
… and I too flew through this one, until I reached my LOI, 4dn, which took a bit of an alphabet hunt. I won’t be surprised to see reports of fast times, but everything was … Read more “Times Cryptic No 27714 – Saturday, 11 July 2020. All porkers watered and ready …”
Jumbo 1448
This was a bit of a struggle for me – not really on the compiler’s wavelength I think, but nothing unfair. A couple of cleverly constructed clues (probably 8D being my favourite) and a couple … Read more “Jumbo 1448”