The end of the Championship semi-final puzzles I’ve blogged, brings something much gentler.
Month: December 2025
Quick Cryptic No 3162 by Alex
I think I made heavy weather of this one.
A Special Crossword for a Special Day
What special day, you may ask? Well, you’ll have to solve the puzzle to find out. You can find the interactive version here, and a PDF to print out here.
This puzzle was created to celebrate this special day by some of the administrators and bloggers here at Times for the Times. We hope you have as much fun solving it as we did creating it.
If you open this post, you will find the standard puzzle blog, only the answers are initially not given and the clue parsings are not yet supplied. When you have completed the puzzle, and are writing your comment, you are invited pick one or two clues that have not yet been discussed, and blog them in the style of your favourite blogger. I will copy your blog entries into the blog until it is complete.
Quick Cryptic 3161 by Wurm – a tour of foreign parts
I found that this geographically entertaining puzzle from Wurm didn’t cause me too many problems.
Times Cryptic No 29402 – Cornucopia of the Classical
Minding the shop today for Jackkt, the first thing that struck me on completion was the number of classical references
Times 29401 – the last trump?
I thought I’d made a decent fist of this, only to find that I was nearly three times over target.
Quick Cryptic 3160 by Heron
Heron enters the fray…
Monthly Club Special No 292 – November 2025
Another great monthly treat of curious words and clever wordplay.