Last Saturday was busy for me, and I did this in snatches. So it was an extended solve, but I don’t think it was harder than usual. My ignorance of 1ac is all encompassing, so … Read more “Times Cryptic No 27966 – Saturday, 1 May 2021. Done by dinner.”
Month: May 2021
Times Quick Cryptic No 1869 by Tracy
An enjoyable, neat crossword from Tracy to end the week. I generally find I catch his wavelength quite quickly and I did so again today. After my misjudgement of how diificult others would find it … Read more “Times Quick Cryptic No 1869 by Tracy”
Times 27,971: Primate, Marmite
This felt strangely easy considering the trickiness of the vocabulary – 10ac and LOI 15dn are both spelled completely differently to how they are in my head (with the result that 15dn was my LOI, … Read more “Times 27,971: Primate, Marmite”
Times Quick Cryptic No 1868 by Teazel
A gentler one today from Teazel, if you’re prepared to do a bit of shrugging-and-entering along the way. Three cryptic definitions and two cryptic hints felt a touch excessive (and I do like a good … Read more “Times Quick Cryptic No 1868 by Teazel”
27970 Thursday, 6 May 2021 I prefer frogs.
I trundled though this in 17.56, with a good three minutes of that wondering what to put in at 11 across and being dense about it. Throughout there is a veritable compendium of standard abbreviations, … Read more “27970 Thursday, 6 May 2021 I prefer frogs.”
Times 27969 – here’s Archie Medes, the chap who brought screws to Greece.
Four anagrams for you, and plenty of “put this into that” wordplay, all making for a mostly straightforward puzzle which took me about twenty minutes, and no problems with the parsing. I tried to spell … Read more “Times 27969 – here’s Archie Medes, the chap who brought screws to Greece.”
Times Quick Cryptic 1867 by Hurley
Lovely. This puzzle seemed effortlessly cryptic, with nothing too obvious or obtuse. I didn’t get 1ac straight away, but did manage 1dn and built from there. Although there were a couple of clues where I … Read more “Times Quick Cryptic 1867 by Hurley”
Times Cryptic 27968
Solving time: 34 minutes. Many thanks to mohn2 for updating the template script to suit my new blogging style so that I don’t have to remember to press Enter after every answer. As usual definitions … Read more “Times Cryptic 27968”
Times Quick Cryptic 1866 by Orpheus
Something of a biff-fest today, many answers seemed so straightforward that only a very causal glance at the cryptic was required. This was a good thing as there’s quite a lot of moving and placing and … Read more “Times Quick Cryptic 1866 by Orpheus”
Times 27967 – Let me check….
Time: 40 minutesMusic: Beethoven, Emperor Concerto, Schnabel/Galliera This one was difficult in my book, although some may find it otherwise. The answers persistently turned out to something I was not expecting at all, and the … Read more “Times 27967 – Let me check….”