I’m not sure about this one, and it took me over 30. Partly that’s because my guts are doing an audition for the remake of the Mr Creosote sketch, which is a shame because … Read more “28774 It’s not Advent yet.”
Month: November 2023
Times Quick Cryptic No 2538 by Felix
Relatively gentle for Felix, of the usual high quality.
Times 28773 – top billing
A really good, quite difficult test, I thought, with several unusual words and some lateral thinking needed.
Times Quick Cryptic No 2537 by Mara
Fairly gentle midweek fare from Mara containing a balanced mix of clues. Expecting the SCC to be somewhat emptier today…
QC 2536 by Orpheus
A few tricky ones meant I visited the SCC again on this one.
Times Cryptic 28772
I was a little surprised to find 55 minutes on the clock as I finished because I wasn’t aware that I had been solving particularly slowly.
Times 28771 – Nope, he’s still at his post!
I thought this was going to be an easy Monday when I saw a number of answers as the puzzle came out of the printer, but the some of the remaining clues proved rather formidable.
Times Quick Cryptic 2535 by Teazel – Paris in the the spring
Hi all. Thanks to Teazel for an enjoyable puzzle. It’s always nice to see 11d and hope it delighted some solvers who hadn’t seen it before. Timewise I was about a minute less than average, or normal for a Monday. How did you find it?
Sunday Times 5086 by Robert Price
20:20. I found this very tricky, with a few answers that were completely beyond my ken and needed to be carefully constructed from wordplay. Excellent stuff though as always.
Mephisto 3299 – Robert Teuton
Greetings, barred-grid fans! I really enjoyed solving this puzzle, since it was the intersection of doing the puzzle, having a gin and tonic, and watching a broadcast of the Joan Collins movie Empire of the … Read more “Mephisto 3299 – Robert Teuton”