Our first Saturday QC has landed!
Day: 6th January 2024
Times Cryptic Jumbo 1650 – 26 December 2023
Hello all, and Happy New Year. I like to blog when the puzzle is fresh in my mind (which should mean doing the write up early but in practice means leaving the solve until the last minute too). Not something I managed with this one – and with all the fun and games on Boxing Day, I don’t think the puzzle was fresh in my mind even at the time! All I remember is that I found it rather tricky and did look up one or two things. Had to work quite hard to parse some of it a second time around as well. My COD is 46d, which really tickled me. Thanks setter.
Times Cryptic Jumbo 1649 – 23rd December 2023
Solved in one session I found this fairly easy.
Times Cryptic 28800 – Sat, 30 Dec 2023. No fireworks.
Plenty of fireworks on New Year’s Eve, but this puzzle was relatively gentle.