Author: Guy du Sable

My LOI was 13 down, as I needed all the checkers… and then some. I hope and trust others will find the definition less elusive. It had to be some kind of -ISM, so what … Read more “Sunday Times Cryptic No 4919 by Dean Mayer — Chef’s surprise”

…leading horses nick vehicle… Some firm and full “lift and separate” (and even squeeze back together) clues here. I learned a Scottish word I’m not likely to forget, as well as what “SS” in nautical … Read more “Sunday Times Cryptic No 4917 by Robert Price — divine language, classic novel”

You know I will TAKE ISSUE with any ILL-CONSIDERED political comments that I see or hallucinate. Worked on paper, and my copy is all marked up—but I like to doodle. The only unknown was the … Read more “Sunday Times Cryptic No 4915 by David McLean — IRANIAN NUKES ASIDE…”

I’ve never read the Leonard Cohen novel that shares its name with this entry. (There, the title refers to a non-solitary activity. Sigh)This was quite an enjoyable romp, and I became acquainted with a new … Read more “Sunday Times Cryptic No 4913 by Dean Mayer — The Favorite Game”

Nothing very exotic here, though I wasn’t sure when working this that I’d ever seen, let alone eaten, a DRUPE (turns out this is a kind of fruit, not a specific variety). Some of the … Read more “Sunday Times Cryptic No 4911 by Robert Price — DIVERSIONARY tactics”

This was an enjoyable way to pass a little time, though certainly not one of this setter’s most challenging. My biggest difficulty when I worked it last Saturday night was occasioned by an Internet outage … Read more “Sunday Times 4909, by David McLean — We are amused”

Take a deep breath… it’s really a BREEZE! For some reason, this puzzle seemed a lot harder at first (I didn’t even see the hidden word—what else could it have been?!) than it turned out … Read more “Sunday Times 4907, by Dean Mayer — Going Up ’T Country”

(The actual title of the 2003 Bob Dylan film directed by Larry Charles is a bit redundant, methinks.) With a long one going in early on and only one slightly unusual word here, this was … Read more “Sunday Times No 4905, by Robert Price — Masked and Antonymous”

Well, this one gave me a bit to think about. Although there are a couple clues, right next to each other, whose construction I found unusual (a rather goofy &lit that may cast aspersions on … Read more “Sunday Times Cryptic No 4903 by David McLean — Sneaking suspicions”

In this puzzle I was delighted to find, like a shiny prize at the bottom of the Cracker Jack box, a word heretofore utterly unknown to me, and which I can’t even imagine running across … Read more “Sunday Times Cryptic 4901, by Dean Mayer — Paint It, Red”