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Times Cryptic 28670

I found this quite easy to solve but several clues required some careful thinking through when I came to write the blog.

I needed the full 10 minutes of my target time for this one as I managed to misread the clue at 17ac.

I found this hard but persevered and eventually managed to complete the grid in 51 minutes.

I found this fairly easy.

I didn’t find this easy but I enjoyed its occasional quirkiness and was pleased to finish without resorting to aids.

Solving time: 9 minutes. I hope most will find this quite straightforward as I don’t think it contains anything remotely obscure.

I don’t have a solving time for this one as I was interrupted and lost track.

Several answers went in not fully understood so I was relieved when they all turned out to be correct.

Solving time: 16 minutes with one wrong answer at 12ac.

Solving time: 55 minutes