Author: jackkt

Time taken to solve: Exactly an hour. A rather slow solve but I was never actually stuck. I don’t think there’s anything contentious here and not much in the way of obscure knowledge is required, … Read more “Times 25082”

Time taken to solve – 42 minutes, but it seemed longer because apart from the four 3-letter words that went in immediately I took a while to get properly under way. After that the LH … Read more “Times 25070 – Bang on the nail!”

Time taken to solve: Off the scale but not as bad as for last Sunday’s puzzle (my worst ever at 2 hours). I knew I was in for trouble when I noticed the grid had … Read more “25058 – FRIDAY 13th!”

I was so tired yesterday that I had a very early night and then came to this fresh around 1 A.M. which was probably just as well as I found it very tough-going indeed. I  … Read more “Times 25046 – In the deep of the night…”

31 minutes for this one so on a non-blogging day I would definitely have beaten the 30 minute barrier that is the best I can hope to achieve fairly regularly. Absolutely no quibbles today (hooray!). … Read more “Times 25034 – No Sweatsville…”

45 minutes. A lot of this was easy and I should have finished sooner but for delays in the SE corner where 14dn was my last in. There’s lots of arty-farty stuff today (the first … Read more “Times 25022 – Eng. Lit.”

Off to a flying start with some easy three-letter answers but I became bogged down quite early on. I got started again when I reached the clues for the SE and then the NE flowed … Read more “Times 25010 – Blogger’s nerves take their toll (again)…”

This was most definitely a puzzle of two parts for me with most of the RH side and the NW quarter going in very easily, but apart from 23ac the SW quarter was a nightmare … Read more “Times 24998 – West Country Disaster!”

Back to normal for me on this one. I completed all but three in the NE  within 30 minutes but then ran over by another 10 to finish the grid but including a cheat at … Read more “24986 – I, a twerp…”

This was much the same old tale for me this week. 30 minutes for most of it but then I came to grief in the NE corner and took another 20 minutes to solve the … Read more “24974”