Author: glh

Time taken: 6:26. I got through this one pretty readily, but I think I might have been the target audience, with a few clues relating to science and a film director I admired.  Early solvers … Read more “Times 28396 – science!”

Time taken: 11:23. I thought we might have been in for a stinker, as a first read through the across entries only yielded three or four, but I got most of the downs at a … Read more “Times 28390 – mixing and matching your underwear”

Time taken: 13:46.  I found this one difficult, though I may have not been on the setter’s wavelength, as the other early solvers thus far have registered slick times. The grid is a pangram (and … Read more “Times 28384 – I can’t get to sleep… I think about the implication”

Time taken: 9:46. The early solvers seemed to find this one more difficult than recent puzzles, and I hit on a few lucky guesses that I now have to unravel for the blog. Quite a … Read more “Times 28378 – a world tour”

Time taken: 9:43. It seems a few weeks in a row I have hit a good puzzle for wordplay, as several answers I had to piece together from wordplay turned out to be correct!  I … Read more “Times 28372 – Fi Vi Al Fum”

Time taken: 14:26, and it seems from the early solvers that this is a tricky one. A good puzzle for looking carefully at the wordplay, as there are some answers that appear plausible from the … Read more “Times 28366 – didn’t he manage the Beatles?”