I found this crossword to be of moderate difficulty, but for me it had too many “I suppose it works” clues to be as satisfying as our usual Wednesday offerings. It took me about 40 minutes and a bit longer to parse them all …
Month: May 2022
Times Cryptic 28292
My first blog in the new forum! I’m very pleased to see the back of all those advertisements in Russian. And so to business as usual….
Times Quick Cryptic 2136 by Joker
There was a lot of ‘going backwards forwards’ and some unknown but clearly clued terms but the answers kept on falling into place.
Times Cryptic Jumbo 1554: Vrooooooooom!
Just a mad dash for the finish line this one – I did it in under 8 minutes but the mighty Magoo was close to 7. Which is maybe what you want for a Monday … Read more “Times Cryptic Jumbo 1554: Vrooooooooom!”
Times 28291 – The site is new, but the puzzles march on!
I found this unusually hard for a Monday, and struggled a bit. It didn’t help that I didn’t know carpet rod and sea loch. Some of the cryptics were quite obscure, and I had to resort to biffing obvious answers to finish the puzzle.
Times Quick Cryptic 2135 by Orpheus
Hello hello hello, shiny happy people, and welcome to our shiny new site! (A warm welcome to matte and miserable people too, of course – I’m with you!) I am so grateful for all the brilliant work put in by the development team to bring us here.
Sunday Times 5006 by David McLean
Welcome to the new home of Times for the Times. It’s great to have this brilliant new site up and running, and an honour to be one of the first to post.
Mephisto 3219 – Paul McKenna
Greetings barred-grid fans, and welcome to The New Place! Hope you are enjoying it so far.
Welcome, everyone, to the new Times for The Times!
I would like to thank everyone for their patience. The grand opening of our new site is finally here, and our community on Live Journal is no more.
Times Cryptic No 28284 – Saturday, 7 May 2022. Solved to the sounds of Haydn?
I’d never heard of the political arrangement at 12D, so no music played for me … tho’ I’m sure it was different for some. Anyhow, the answer was clear from the helpers. Nor was my geography up to naming the answer to 2D – that one I had to look up. Everything else was within my ken. Thanks to the setter for a very enjoyable puzzle. How did you all get on?