Hello everybody. I think it’s safe to say this is a puzzle for those who appreciate one particular clue type …
Month: October 2022
Mephisto 3241 – Don Manley
Greetings, barred-grid fans. Let’s start with the news – it was announced with the publication of this puzzle that when Don Manley steps down from Mephisto early next year that there will be two new … Read more “Mephisto 3241 – Don Manley”
Sunday Times 5028 by Dean Mayer – easy as XYZ
17:30, but with one cheat.
Times Cryptic Jumbo 1578 – 01 October 2022
Hello again. My style with jumbos is to riffle through them in the time I would spend on a normal cryptic, about 15 or 20 minutes, solving what clues I can. Then I put it … Read more “Times Cryptic Jumbo 1578 – 01 October 2022”
Times Cryptic No 28416 – Saturday, 8 October 2022. Cogito ergo sum?
René Descartes was a great philosopher, mathematician and scientist, but he appears in this crossword only because he was French, as far as I can tell! C’est la vie.
Quick Cryptic 2244 by Kenny
A light-to-medium offering from Kenny
Times 28,421: Pangram’s People
I made pretty swift progress through this pangrammatic puzzle: have lots of unusual letters and curious words means that the crossers are often more helpful than might otherwise be the case. But I liked a … Read more “Times 28,421: Pangram’s People”
Times Quick Cryptic No 2243 by Oink
A fine puzzle by Oink which stretched me to 11 minutes after a bit of a delay in the south…
Times 28420 – not built for speed
Time taken: 15:03. I struggled with this one, and so did several of the early solvers, it seems. There’s some well-hidden definitions and tricky wordplay, and I hope I have unraveled everything for the blog. … Read more “Times 28420 – not built for speed”
Times 28419 – milestones tell stories
This was no disappointment for a milestone puzzle. No complaints; a hard but fair test I thought.