Vinyl1 posted after last week’s puzzle that he had a few questions over this one. I didn’t fare too badly, though there was one abbreviation that I didn’t find in Chambers and had to look … Read more “Mephisto 3137 – Tim Moorey”
Author: glh
Times 27796 – when you’re a blogger…
Time taken: 11:46. I was wondering if I was going to get to write the blog in this format – about a week ago the crossword club stopped working in my Chrome browser – I’d … Read more “Times 27796 – when you’re a blogger…”
Mephisto 3135 – Paul McKenna
I remember doing this on Sunday afternoon on a pretty glorious day, but don’t remember that much about the solving process. Chalk that up to a round of golf the previous day where I took … Read more “Mephisto 3135 – Paul McKenna”
Times 27784 – a wordplay tour-de-force
Time taken: 9:13. That is just a touch under my average, but this is a tricky puzzle that is right up my alley – there were a large number of answers here that I had … Read more “Times 27784 – a wordplay tour-de-force”
Mephisto 3133: Don Manley
Oh dear, I appear to have been migrated to a new posting system, which removes the colours and the spacing of the automated blog poster that I have been using. I hope it is still … Read more “Mephisto 3133: Don Manley”
Times 27772 – my first palindrome!
Time taken: 13:14, although even with checking through my answers I managed a particularly silly typo at 13 down, which was one of the ones I felt good about parsing. I think this is a … Read more “Times 27772 – my first palindrome!”
Mephisto 3131 – Tim Moorey
I didn’t get to this until after I blogged Thursday’s daily puzzle, and it seems it was my week as there was quite a bit of chemistry spread between these two! My particular expertise in … Read more “Mephisto 3131 – Tim Moorey”
Times 27760 – rumour and 26
Well I hit the submit button at 8:53, feeling very good about this one, but I didn’t check carefully enough and I had a typo in 26 across, so there goes what I think might … Read more “Times 27760 – rumour and 26”
Mephisto 3129 – Paul McKenna
Fun puzzle, this one – you can trust the wordplay to get the large number of unusual terms in the grid. Another grid with 90-degree symmetry, it seems we are getting more of these lately. … Read more “Mephisto 3129 – Paul McKenna”
Times 27748: #isthetimescrosswordoninstagramnow
Time taken: 10:52. I thought I was in for a tough time with this one, as a first run through the across clues didn’t yield much, but I did pretty well on a first run … Read more “Times 27748: #isthetimescrosswordoninstagramnow”