I thought this quite an entertaining Jumbo. It had a fair smattering of easier clues to help you populate the grid but also a few trickier ones with deceptive definitions or ingenious wordplay. As usual, … Read more “Times Cryptic Jumbo 1487 – 13th March”
Month: March 2021
Times Quick Cryptic No 1839 by Izetti
A typically smooth but testing Quick Cryptic from Don today. He certainly kept me on my toes with one or two tricky clues that needed all my experience to navigate. Never one to just follow … Read more “Times Quick Cryptic No 1839 by Izetti”
Times 27,935: So You’ve Been To School For A Year Or Two And You Think You Know It All
When the top row went straight in I thought I might be in for a relatively easy ride this Friday despite feeling a little blah, but no such luck! Few of the definition parts in … Read more “Times 27,935: So You’ve Been To School For A Year Or Two And You Think You Know It All”
Times Quick Cryptic No 1838 by Hurley
This looks like quite a gentle solve in hindsight that I didn’t make especially light work of, coming in a minute-or-so under target. No particular hold-ups, although I was slow to unravel the anagram at … Read more “Times Quick Cryptic No 1838 by Hurley”
27934 Thursday, 25 March 2021 From Maternity to Here
A perfectly acceptable birthday present of a puzzle (I’m one short of the Biblical limit, unless I turn out to be strong) which I completed in a smidge over one score and 2 minutes. There … Read more “27934 Thursday, 25 March 2021 From Maternity to Here”
Times 27933 – don’t trip over your sword, my Lord, eat my words.
Here I enjoyed a pleasant, nicely constructed crossword, with nothing exceptional or unknown and a full range of wordplay devices being used. The word at 19a was not known to me but easily derived and … Read more “Times 27933 – don’t trip over your sword, my Lord, eat my words.”
Times Quick Cryptic 1837 by Wurm
A similar story to yesterday, for me, in which most of the answers flew in before I got stuck on some head-scratchers. I thought 15dn was brilliant – it had me almost panicking when I … Read more “Times Quick Cryptic 1837 by Wurm”
Times Cryptic 27932
Solving time: 32 minutes for all but one clue which I was unable to solve without using aids, so technically this was a DNF for me. As usual definitions are underlined in bold italics, {deletions … Read more “Times Cryptic 27932”
Times Quick Cryptic 1836 by Tracy
No name as yet for the setter so I can’t congratulate them on beating me all ends up [on edit – thanks to jackkt for news from the tree-ware version of the setter’s name]. Was … Read more “Times Quick Cryptic 1836 by Tracy”
Times 27931 – No, not the Audiophiliac…
Time: 27 minutesMusic: Bach, Goldberg Variations, Glenn Gould This was a perfectly simple Monday puzzle, and I did most of it very quickly, before slowing down at the end. There were some rather complex cryptics, … Read more “Times 27931 – No, not the Audiophiliac…”