Solving time : 16 minutes and 5 seconds, with one complete guess last in. Thanks to Uncle Yap for filling in for me on short notice last week, but I think I may have gotten … Read more “Times 25051 – a holiday is almost as good as a change”
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Mephisto 2677 – Tim Moorey
Happy New Year everyone! Glad I still have this, it’s been sitting in my pile a while (a rhyme to bring in 2011). This is the Mephisto from December 18 (many of you may remember … Read more “Mephisto 2677 – Tim Moorey”
Times 25033 – cats and snakes and naked ladies (oh my!)
Solving time : 20 minutes, 48 seconds on my handy-dandy smartassphone timer, but a full 10 minutes of that was spent on the top left corner which decided to evade my probing forever. Funny thing … Read more “Times 25033 – cats and snakes and naked ladies (oh my!)”
Mephisto 2675 – Paul McKenna
I remember getting about half of this out sitting in the sun sipping on coffee, my ususal position for starting to tackle the Sunday offerings. The left hand side went in almost immediately and I … Read more “Mephisto 2675 – Paul McKenna”
Times 25021 – ummm, OK?
Solving time : well after 25 minutes and 34 seconds, I hit submit on the Crossword Club, which is telling me I’ve got two wrong. I’ve scoured it and can’t see right now where I’ve … Read more “Times 25021 – ummm, OK?”
Mephisto 2673 – Don Manley
Interesting puzzle, this one – I did it in one session, but there were a few that I did not get the wordplay on at all, and my first version of the grid had four … Read more “Mephisto 2673 – Don Manley”
Times 25009 – the fastest cake in the world!
Solving time : 13:51 – with about 5 minutes of that spent stuck in the Yankee corner. There’s some rather interesting devices used here, a few that don’t pop up that often. If you know … Read more “Times 25009 – the fastest cake in the world!”
Mephisito 2671 – Tim Moorey
If you read the half-post, that was weird, I had a pop-up attack while I was writing the blog up, sorry there was only half a post originally. I’m afraid I didn’t give this the … Read more “Mephisito 2671 – Tim Moorey”
Times 24997 – in space, no-one can hear you look things up in dictionaries.
Solving time : 28 minutes, and then a great deal of looking things up. The setter’s wavelength and mine were a long long long long way from each other here, and I strugged to get … Read more “Times 24997 – in space, no-one can hear you look things up in dictionaries.”
Mephisto 2669 – Paul McKenna
The difficulty appears to have been ramped up a little here – I got most of the bottom half out without needing to resort to aids, but the top half was full of unfamiliar territory! … Read more “Mephisto 2669 – Paul McKenna”