Author: jackkt

I had a struggle with this one and took an hour give or take 5 minutes not for the first time this week. Some of the clues that held me up for longest (4ac for … Read more “Times 25130 – In it for the long haul…”

This one took me 45 minutes with time lost mainly in the early stages where blogger’s nerves took their usual toll. Whilst solving I thought there seemed to be rather a lot of American stuff … Read more “Times 25118 – Americana”

Goodness me, this one gave me some problems and took me over an hour for the third consecutive day this week. Right at the outset I fell literally into a bear-trap (probably of my own … Read more “Times – 25106 – Bewitched, bothered and (just a bit) jaded…”

This one took me 45 minutes but I had some problems finishing off – as usual. A couple of really good clues (10ac and 21ac) made up for the odd duffer e.g.19 where you probably … Read more “25094 – Coochy-coo!”

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.”