Solving time: About 2 hours 40 minutes First of all, my abject apologies for the lateness of this blog. I should have posted this at the weekend, but it completely slipped my mind. If you … Read more “Times Jumbo 1000 (29 Sep 2012) – A Grand Offering”
Author: daveperry
Sunday Times 4506 (7 Oct 2012) by Dean Mayer
Solving time: 55:37 – I found this quite tough, even by Dean’s standards. There’s quite a bit of devious wordplay in this one, a lot of which I didn’t decipher until post-solve, otherwise I certainly … Read more “Sunday Times 4506 (7 Oct 2012) by Dean Mayer”
Times 25292
Solving time: 62:50 I made very heavy weather over this. This was mostly due to tackling it at night for blogging purposes. Indeed I had to give up and go to bed after about 45 … Read more “Times 25292”
Sunday Times 4505 (30 Sep 2012) by Jeff Pearce
Solving time: 20:27 – Although I would have been under 20 minutes if I hadn’t spent 30 seconds checking at the end. As my time suggests, I thought this was very straightforward by recent standards. … Read more “Sunday Times 4505 (30 Sep 2012) by Jeff Pearce”
Sunday Times 4504 (23 Sep 2012) by Tim Moorey
Solving time: 57:46 I found this one really quite a struggle, although I was quite tired so it may well just be me. Some of the clues seemed very easy, while others seemed a lot … Read more “Sunday Times 4504 (23 Sep 2012) by Tim Moorey”
Times 25280
Solving time: 38:41 – with one careless typo that affected two clues, thus spoiling my score. I rather enjoyed this one. I went through this quite fast (for me), but didn’t feel that it was … Read more “Times 25280”
Sunday Times 4503 (16 Sep 2012) by Dean Mayer
Solving time: 1:02:33 I struggled with this one. There’s a lot of very clever stuff in here, and I needed to be at my sharpest to get through it in a half-decent time, but alas … Read more “Sunday Times 4503 (16 Sep 2012) by Dean Mayer”
Sunday Times 4502 (9 Sep 2012) by Jeff Pearce
Solving time: 25:38 – my quickest time for a Sunday since January. I found this quite easy by recent standards, but by far the most enjoyable for a while. Lots of good surfaces and some … Read more “Sunday Times 4502 (9 Sep 2012) by Jeff Pearce”
Times 25268 – Slugs with silly tails
Solving time: 33:58 – with one careless mistake. An enjoyable puzzle on the whole that I found fairly straightforward. I failed to fully analyse 26a until post-solve, throwing in GASTROPODS and moving swiftly on. I … Read more “Times 25268 – Slugs with silly tails”
Sunday Times 4501 (2 Sep 2012) by Tim Moorey
Solving time: 53:41 I didn’t like this one. There were one or two clues that I liked, but they got rather lost amongst all the ones I didn’t. I won’t dwell on them here, as … Read more “Sunday Times 4501 (2 Sep 2012) by Tim Moorey”