Author: Zabadak

Something of a breeze in just under 21 minutes (takes me that bit longer when I have half an eye on how I’m going to explain it all to my eager readers). But a sting … Read more “28222 Thursday, 24 February 2022 Apparently not my scene”

Land’s sakes, we have ourselves the entire alphabet, in a puzzle which achieves the impressive feat of not looking as if it’s trying too hard. I was hampered by a rash of typos throughout, pushing … Read more “28210 Thursday, 10 February 2022 Lovely Riita?”

Well, I found this tough, and it seems to be testing our high flyers. It’s be interesting to see where the SNITCH settles down to. The ones that pushed my time out from around 20 … Read more “28198 Thursday, 27 January 2022 Bienvenue encore!”

Mostly straightforward, and I breezed through in 15.44, with minimal delays on the sinking of ships, the variety entertainment and the office of officers. I came to write up the blog thinking I was going … Read more “28186 Thursday, 13 January 2022 An unencumbered ramble”

It’s quite difficult for me to avoid saying I found this very much on the straightforward side. I did, after all, spin through in 12.27 which for once puts me amongst the quicker solvers. With … Read more “28174 Thursday, 30 December 2021 Tall and tan and young and lovely?”

Goes down in my book as A Bit Tricky, my time of 27.40 more inflated by the need to parse properly as I went along than by any particularly opaque wordplay or abstruse definitions. I … Read more “28162 Thursday, 16 December 2021 I, the returning officer…”

At the time of writing I am way over the average time taken for this puzzle, and although I’ll give examples of where I slowed to a crawl below, I can see that it’s not … Read more “28150 Thursday, 2 December 2021 Perfectly crumulent”

Not too tricky at this station, arriving fully parsed in 20.19, but as you may infer from my ramblings below, there are quite a few bits where the general knowledge may not be all that … Read more “28138 Thursday, 18 November 2021 You might say that….”

Top half a bit of a doddle except the Aussie bit, bottom half a serious treacle wading exercise, with some tricksy definitions, including one I’m still not convinced by but expect to have my obtuseness … Read more “28126 Thursday, 4 November 2021 Mad monks and mishpronunciation”

Well, I struggled my way through this one, taking 33.39 with answers scattered all over the place, trying (and failing) to parse as I went so I could look you all in the face and … Read more “28114 Thursday, 21 October 2021 Ballet tricky”