Author: jackkt

I struck lucky with an easy one today and polished it off in about 20 minutes which is as good as things get for me. I can’t see there’s much that could cause others problems … Read more “23897 – Winding gently down for the weekend”

This one took me about 40 minutes, the last 10 being spent in the SW corner where 12, 18d and 27 put up some resistance, but it was much more my level of puzzle than … Read more “23885 – A bit more like it”

Fairly straightforward today but still tricky enough in places with the NE corner (as yesterday) putting up most resistance. I expect to see some very quick times from the hares today. This tortoise managed it … Read more “Times 23873”

This took me about an hour which was not good as I started very well and for a while thought I had drawn an easy day to blog but I became bogged down along the … Read more “Times 23861 Tricky”

Time taken to solve: About 40 minutes, half of which was spent on 21 across. A very enjoyable puzzle with lots of clues that read really well. I thought I was in for a record … Read more “23849 – Another scorpion”

 This took me a good hour but I probably spent longer working out the clues whilst solving than I normally would. There was some lovely stuff along the way and only a couple of queries or … Read more “Times 23837 – Phew!”

Time taken to solve: A little over 30 mins. I found this mostly straightforward but uninspiring after some rather exceptional puzzles earlier in the week Across 1 PAC(IF)Y 4 EPI(DEM,1)C – (1,MED) rev. that is, held … Read more “23825 CHAR-CHAR-ARCH!”

 Oh dear! Another difficult one for me today and I suspect that Peter and some others may have finished before I had even put my first word in as that took me at least 5 minutes. Having … Read more “23813 Hammered again! (well not quite)”

I found this one much easier to complete than to explain. It took me about 40 minutes but I was rather distracted by the number of answers going in that I couldn’t fully justify at the … Read more “23801 – Hay ho!”

Solving time : About 40 minutes. An enjoyable puzzle that didn’t make too many demands on this addled brain when tackled in the early hours before bedtime. Several nice clues, in particular 9, 24 and … Read more “23793 Oooh R!”