Author: dorsetjimbo

Solving time 15 minutes A very easy puzzle with no real talking points. The use of RETE is perhaps obscure but it is used from time to time. As it’s such a bland puzzle, I … Read more “Times 24,456 Do I Get A Card From The Queen?”

Solving time 25 minutes Many happy returns to The Times. This puzzle is not for the young and faint hearted. The first time I did this puzzle I was 17, two pints and a curry … Read more “Times 9281 of 1st February 1960 on the Crossword’s 80th Birthday”

Solving time 25 minutes This is mainly good sound stuff, an average Times puzzle even down to the author and obscure poet. I worked steadily through it without too much trouble except for my last … Read more “Times 24,444 Why is it always Liverpool?”

SolVing time: 20 minutes I enjoyed this puzzle but was never particularly stretched by it. I found the clue style interesting and was delighted to have no boring poets or authors but instead to be … Read more “Times 24,432 Antithesis meets the last theorem”

Solving time: 20 minutes There’s not much to say about this – it’s essentially very straightforward. The Editor clearly thinks we’re all hung over. I have one query at 20D where I can’t parse the … Read more “Times 24,420 Pall’s Balistic Missal in Salem”

Solving time – 20 minutes A reasonable enough puzzle just on the easy side of average but with some entertaining stuff. I worked down top to bottom, left to right, first in TOMATO (which may … Read more “Times 24,409 A Touch of Violence”