Hello again. This Jumbo I thought was significantly harder than average, with some difficult and tricksy clues. I got there, but it was a bit of a struggle. What did you think? Another thing I … Read more “Times Cryptic Jumbo 1548 – 2 April 2022”
Month: April 2022
Quick Cryptic 2114 by Rongo
Well, well. After a long run of easy ones to blog, I think a lot pf people are going to find this a bit of a challenge. I could not parse 23ac and I was on … Read more “Quick Cryptic 2114 by Rongo”
Times 28265 – Normal service now resumed.
Sorry for the late blog. Across 1 For example, cat catching small rat? (4) PEST – PE(S)T. 3 Be dynamite, writhing between the sheets here? (7,3) AMENITY BED – Anagram of BE DYNAMITE. An NHS … Read more “Times 28265 – Normal service now resumed.”
Times 28264 – some self-assembly required
Time taken: 7:52 I found this one pretty breezy, though I had a bit of a leg-up with one of the trickier answers being a word used commonly in my field. Of the early solvers, … Read more “Times 28264 – some self-assembly required”
Times Quick Cryptic No 2113 by Breadman
Well, I found this a very interesting puzzle from Breadman. My solving time of 11 minutes suggests that it was easier than average, but I think some of the parsing was tricky, particularly in the … Read more “Times Quick Cryptic No 2113 by Breadman”
Times Quick Cryptic No 2112 by Orpheus
Introduction 13:46. I got garden-pathed on 1 Down and barely recovered. I’m sorry I haven’t been around much as of late. Last fall I enrolled (or ‘enroled’, as you might have it) in a master’s … Read more “Times Quick Cryptic No 2112 by Orpheus”
Times 28263 – a work of art.
I really enjoyed this one; not especially hard, it took me half an hour to do and parse, but full of fun and bits of General Knowledge slipped in here and there. I know my … Read more “Times 28263 – a work of art.”
Times Cryptic 28262
Solving time: 27 minutes. There was lots of interesting stuff here and nothing that gave me major problems. As usual definitions are underlined in bold italics, {deletions and substitutions are in curly brackets} and [anagrinds, … Read more “Times Cryptic 28262”
Times Quick Cryptic 2111 by Oink
I feel like I made a real pig’s ear of this. I finished in 14 minutes after struggling in the NW and then, inexplicably, unable to see LOI 9dn 9ac for an age. I’ll put … Read more “Times Quick Cryptic 2111 by Oink”
Times 28261 – I coulda been a contender
A pretty typical Monday offering, with not too much to scare the equines, or indeed ships of the desert. The winner of Most Bizarre Vocab Item was very generously clued and the winner of Old-fashioned … Read more “Times 28261 – I coulda been a contender”