Author: Zabadak

  I got through in 19.18 without too many holdups, aside from looking out for additions to the three clues which formed a sort of theme for the puzzle. I put in the cricketer at … Read more “29266 Is it a bird? Is it a cricket?”

  Almost 24 minutes on this rather good crossword, a fair few of those banging my head against a bit of wordplay which I was determined to resolve before submitting, but didn’t. The tech whizz … Read more “29254 It made one Gasp and Stretch one’s Eyes”

  Completed in 17.36 with no major hold-ups, though the novel may not be on everyone’s reading list. I enjoyed this, especially with some well-worked long anagrams which fell out easily enough, and some witty … Read more “29242 I wish you all joy of the worm.”

  My 22.36 suggests, accurately, that I found this quite chewy, even if, with the exception of one abomination, I didn’t stumble over any words not found in my crossword lexicography. There was the hint … Read more “29230 Come on you Squares!”

  A leisurely 28.07, with quite a lot of it spent fruitlessly looking at one clue which ended up being thrown in regardless. There’s a rare example of a definition in the middle of its … Read more “29218 M’aidez!”

  I rather struggled through this, my flow being glacial rather than the pyroclastic referred to in the puzzle. Only that mountain appeared out of the nowhere of my forgettery/never’eardery, and with the crossers even … Read more “29206 Turns out it really is a mountain”

  I’d like to think that the high proportion (so far) of single error entries indicates that we have a clue that is capable of sustaining more than one answer, the sort where if you … Read more “29194 The Maddening Crowd”

  With blogger’s caution, I took a leisurely 16.41 for this, though early results suggest it might be another quick solve for many regulars. There’s some discrete advertising across the upper middle which Nestlé presumably … Read more “29182 Smile, troubles duly packed up.”

  I made it through this in 18.45, which suggests a puzzle of moderate challenge, though I expect many to have queries about the naming of that delicious scent that fresh rainfall produces on contact … Read more “29170 If you like….gettin’ caught in the rain”

  I’ve generally been running slow this week, and today provided no let-up in the lethargy, though I completed in 24.24 with no clue in particular causing extended puzzling, apart from struggling with the parsing … Read more “29158 Two all-beef patios…”