I detected a touch of the Cryptic Jumbos to the cluing of this medium-strength crossword, lots of “shove x into y to make z” with surfaces erring on just the right side of intelligibility: nothing … Read more “Times 27,827: Pack Up Your Troubles”
Day: 19th November 2020
Times Quick Cryptic No 1748 by Rongo
Rongo is one of our more occasional setters, having appeared every six months or so for at least the last couple of years. I didn’t bother searching further back than that. Previous puzzles seem to … Read more “Times Quick Cryptic No 1748 by Rongo”
27826 Thursday, 19 November 2020 Hasty to its close ebbs out life’s little day
So. There’s some clever stuff in here which had me casting around long after I’d submitted with a quiet (and, as it turns out, effective) prayer to the gods of greenness. There’s some GK which … Read more “27826 Thursday, 19 November 2020 Hasty to its close ebbs out life’s little day”