Author: Zabadak

I found this rather stiff going, particularly as the NW corner was pretty unyielding, though in retrospect I’m not quite sure why. The vocab is occasionally from the further reaches of the dictionary, particularly the … Read more “27718 Thursday, 16 July 2020 In my end is my beginning”

Another Thursday puzzle which put up some stiff resistance, at least for your humble correspondent. Perhaps it’s the pressure of having to justify everything as I worked through, but then I didn’t manage that until … Read more “27706 Thursday, 2 July 2020 As sung by the random ladies of Camptown”

I took nearly 30 minutes over this, which is odd because that suggests I found it hard, and I’m not convinced it is. I was not helped by failing with the top left corner, and … Read more “27694 Thursday, 18 June 2020 You simply have nothing to fear”

A mildly classical feel to this one, with the sort of vocab that turns up in Shakespeare but not much elsewhere, some Chaucer, some Greek mythology and Genesis to play with, though for the most … Read more “27682 Thursday, 4 June 2020 Io, Io, it’s off to work we go.”

I’m not sure whether I found this tricky because it is, or because I was tackling it after a long and unusually busy day. You will see that there were several clues which I only … Read more “27670 Thursday, 21 May 2020 Kill’d i’ the Capitol”

I found this a cheerful enough number, with intelligent and witty clues and nothing I could see that was obscure. My last two in, the mostly harmless crossing pair at 3d and 14a took my … Read more “27658 Thursday, 7 May 2020 “Two households, both alike in dignity””

A step up from the week’s earlier offerings, this one pushed me hard for 27’ 44” of lockdown, nothing much else to do time. I am expecting quite a few blank looks around the place, … Read more “27646 Thursday, 23 April 2020 Cry God for Harry, England and St George….and Shakespeare”

Cop and robbers turn up in equal measure in this puzzle, and there’s also a barrister in attendance and a former criminal keeping us company. I rather breezed through this after a shaky start, with … Read more “27634 Thursday, 9 April 2020 Uncle Bulgaria Remembers”

Thursday, 26 March 2020 I’ll tell you what, I haven’t done this in a mort of years, but I went straight through the clues in presented order and emerged breathless in 9.24, which included my … Read more “27622, Thursday, 26 March 2020 Having nothing else to do…”

I thought at first this was going to be tough, not getting 1 across straight away and treating the following clues with rather more suspicion than they warranted. Once I got going, though, I realised … Read more “27610 Thursday, 12 March 2020 You remind me of the babe”