Month: April 2024

30:32, a time which includes a short nap. Let me make clear that the nap in no way reflects the quality of the puzzle: I found this to be a nice challenge, a tasteful mix of easier and more difficult clues.

Time taken: 11:58. I don’t think this is as difficult as I made it out to be, I had two early typos in answers that kept me from completing some pretty obvious cryptics. There’s a … Read more “Times 28900 – real and unreal geography”

Some inspired work here from our setter, misdirecting me several times.

Most of this went in quite easily but some of the parsing was a bit tricky

I was going along quite nicely until I got to 19 down. Thereafter, I got no further. An early look at the leaderboard shows the expected fast times. I wonder how many others were nonplussed. … Read more “Times 28897 – Lib Lab”