Author: jackkt

After 30 minutes I was left with 20,21,24 and 25 outstanding and took another 10 to crack these. For some reason I had a blind-spot at 21 and this led to my very few problems … Read more “Times 24603 – Nice time in the park, Jimbo?”

This very tricky puzzle gave me endless problems in the solving as I fell for every misdirection. I think my brain is a bit addled this morning. In many cases I came up with the … Read more “Times – 24591 – Pangram”

I think it was another case of Blogger’s nerves because I raced through most of this but was then left with several gaps in all but the NW corner which took a long time to … Read more “Times 24579 – Egg On Face”

Time taken to solve: Off the map but somewhere in excess of two hours with some resort to aids after the first hour had passed. I feel like pasting in yfyap’s comments about yesterday’s puzzle … Read more “Times 24567 – Labyrinth”

I found this one quite easy and solved it without aids in 40 minutes having paid more attention to wordplay than I might have done if I were not blogging the puzzle. The abundance of … Read more “Times 24555 – Jimbo’s in that park again!”

A very varied and enjoyable puzzle of two halves for me. After getting off to a flying start with lots of anagrams, a couple of references to books and at least two give-away clues I … Read more “24543 – Enid Blyton meets James Joyce and Svengali”

I started solving this around midnight-thirty after having problems (yet again) accessing the crossword site. I can’t give a solving time because I was in bed and I nodded off a couple of times when … Read more “Times 24519 – A Hard Day’s Night”

A very steady 30 minute solve which I imagine will prove extremely easy for the speed merchants. There’s very little if any specialist knowledge required and I doubt if anyone’s GK will be stretched by … Read more “Times 24507 – A Walk In The Park”

I solved this last night in 35 minutes after an extremely long and tiring day (and a few bevvies) so I’d like to think I would have raced through it if my brain had been … Read more “Times 24495 – Change and decay and smelly fish”

I solved this late last night. I don’t know whether I was tired and my brain was particularly slow but I found it a real slog which took me just under 90 minutes to crack. … Read more “Times 24483 – 90 Minutes Hard Labour”