Greetings barred-grid fans! I spent more time looking up things in Chambers than usual this week, not so much because of the wordplay, but there are some very odd words in the grid. In Mephisto … Read more “Mephisto 3233 – Tim Moorey”
Month: August 2022
Sunday Times 5020 by Robert Price – country and western
8:59. I’m on holiday at the moment and our wifi is extremely dodgy so I’m going to keep this short. Not a difficult puzzle but a model of elegance, as we’ve come to expect from this setter. Lovely stuff.
Times Cryptic Jumbo 1569: Zut Alors!
Pretty much the best Jumbo I can recall in recent times, with loads of truly devious stuff intricately clued. I loved a lot of the hard-to-spot definition parts: takes orders from, fancy that’s wrong, drive … Read more “Times Cryptic Jumbo 1569: Zut Alors!”
Times Cryptic No 28368 – Saturday, 13 August 2022. Golly Jee?
A few clues today stretched my general knowledge. The most mysterious was the Shakespearean character that I’d never heard of; various sources suggest he might sometimes be spelled with a J or a G rather than an I.
Quick Cryptic 2204 by Joker
An odd one this. Two snakes, three birds and a dog.
Times 28,373: I Sukkot Solving
ETA: There is a Nina in here which I hadn’t noticed at all until pointed out to me! Check out columns 1, 3, 6 and 12. A good ‘un, this, that kept me thinking pretty … Read more “Times 28,373: I Sukkot Solving”
Times 28372 – Fi Vi Al Fum
Time taken: 9:43. It seems a few weeks in a row I have hit a good puzzle for wordplay, as several answers I had to piece together from wordplay turned out to be correct! I … Read more “Times 28372 – Fi Vi Al Fum”
Times Quick Cryptic No 2203 by Izetti
Another cracker from The Don (Izetti) which took me two-minutes over target at 17 minutes.
Times 28371 – no ruffled feathers.
An elegant challenge today, no obscurities or anagrams of foreign words but a layman’s knowledge of particle physics would help.
Times Quick Cryptic No 2202 by Teazel
DNF, because sometimes you’re an American.