Author: jackkt

I started this last night but soon found it too difficult for my tired brain and gave up with about a quarter completed. This morniing it didn’t seem so bad but I reckon I must have … Read more “24124 – Cats and Dog”

 I printed this off last night intending to solve it this morning and thought I would take a quick look to see what I was in for, however the first couple of clues went in … Read more “24112 – Late Night Final”

I completed nearly all of this in 35 minutes but was left with 7d unsolved for some time afterwards. Eventually I discovered an error at 13 which resolved the  problem. Another good puzzle but I expect … Read more “24101 – Dosh, not hush money”

This was mostly straightforward and took me 40 minutes with no major hold-ups. For a while I had answers dotted around all four quarters and it took a little time for them to start coming … Read more “24089 – Nice end to a tricky week”

Rather surprisingly I took 45 minutes over this one which had started so well. It seemed to be a mixture of incredibly easy clues, one or two of them even a bit feeble, and others … Read more “24077 At Sixes but not Sevens”

This took me an hour with most of the lower half completed in 15 minutes. I don’t know why I found the top half so difficult.  I certainly thought this the most difficult of the … Read more “Times 24065 – Solver’s Block”

My time taken to solve was off the specially extended scale! I knew I’d get one like this today after the run of quite easy ones recently. Many of the clues were difficult yet fair, … Read more “24053 – Apparently so…..”

Time taken to solve: An hour before I resorted to help on 15ac to kickstart the SE corner where I was well and truly stuck. Then it took me another 10 minutes. I found this … Read more “24041 Infuriating”

Time taken to solve: 50 minutes. I was disappointed about this because I started very confidently, filling in most of the NW corner on first reading, and the NE came together quickly too. But I became … Read more “24029 – Should have done better”