Author: jackkt

Another slow solve for me today at a little under an hour though I spent longer working out the wordplay as I went along than I would on a non-blogging day. Once again I don’t … Read more “TIMES 24651 – Not quite so easy”

I was rather surprised to find that 50 minutes had passed when I completed this puzzle as I was not aware of being stuck at any point. I’m always a bit slow on my blogging … Read more “Times 24639 – ZZ…ZZ…”

Time taken to solve: 45 minutes. I thought I was heading for about 30 but the SE corner, 15dn in particular, put up some resistance at the end. Mostly a fairly straightforward puzzle with only … Read more “Times 24627 – One Hump or Two?”

 I hope I won’t be the only person to have found this difficult. I started out quite comfortably and for a while I thought I was heading for a respectable solving time (for me) of … Read more “24615 – A STING IN THE TAIL”

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”