Author: jackkt

After a good start I made rather heavy weather of this and took the best part of an hour to complete it. The RH side and most of the NW (excepting the elusive 9dn) went … Read more “Times 24842 – A Lion Called Wallace”

My time taken to solve this was off the scale for the third consecutive day. I made a good start in the NE corner but quickly ground to a halt and after that it was … Read more “Times 24830 – Could have been worse, but not by much…”

I completed all of this bar three in 35 minutes but took another 20 to finish it off. The sticking points were the interlocking obscurities at 1ac and 2dn and having only vowels as checkers … Read more “24818 – Gone to the dogs?”

This took me a good hour and left me with several things to look up and check before writing the blog. As so often recently I’m not sure whether it really was as hard as … Read more “24806 – Not so glorious 25th March”

This took me 31 minutes which is pretty good by my standards so I doubt it will have detained the speed-merchants for too long. I scanned through the first five or six clues both Down … Read more “24794 – Marie’s the name…”

Unaccountably this took me 40 minutes to solve and having now written the blog I am completely baffled as to why. Apart from 16ac which has relatively complicated wordplay and the answer is an unfamiliar … Read more “24782 – More like DT”

After my run of DNFs this week I approached this one with some trepidation but I got off to a quick start with most of the NW and SE going in quite easily. A little … Read more “24770 – Happy Trails!”

I took over 90 minutes to finish this, solving it late into the night but it was after a very long and tiring day at work and I’m not sure whether that was a major … Read more “24758 – A real toughie (or just me?)”

This was a slowish but steady solve for me, taking 45 minutes. There’s a fair bit of GK required but I would say there’s nothing too obscure for finding the answers though a couple may … Read more “Times 24746”

Time taken to solve: 35 minutes. I thought we might be in for a stinker today but most of this went in without difficulty though I lost a little time on 6dn and 11ac. An … Read more “Times 24734”