Author: jackkt

Solving time: 38 minutes. Quite straightforward. I imagine the speed merchants will report very fast times. Edit 07:20: After reading reports from the first seven conributors it seems the puzzle was not as straightforward as … Read more “Times Cryptic 28040”

Solving time: 38 minutes. Not by any means a straightforward puzzle but the wordplay got me to the solutions I wasn’t sure of. As usual definitions are underlined in bold italics, {deletions and substitutions are … Read more “Times 28034”

Solving time: 28 minutes. I don’t know that having 6 double defintion clues is excessive, but having 5 of them in the Down clues in close proximity made blogging them very repetitive. As usual definitions … Read more “Times Cryptic 28028”

Solving time: 41 minutes but I needed aids for my last one in. Otherwise very enjoyable. As usual definitions are underlined in bold italics, {deletions and substitutions are in curly brackets} and [anagrinds, containment, reversal … Read more “Times Cryptic 28022”

I solved this in 22 minutes but it didn’t seem that easy in the process. As usual definitions are underlined in bold italics, {deletions and substitutions are in curly brackets} and [anagrinds, containment, reversal and … Read more “Times Cryptic 28016”

Solving time: 50 minutes. This puzzle certainly had a different feel about it from the usual offerings and was quite inventive in parts, most of which worked rather well. As usual definitions are underlined in … Read more “Times Cryptic 28010”

. My solving time was 32 minutes for all but 3 letters, but this was a technical DNF because I had rather lost patience with the puzzle by then so I used aids to complete … Read more “Times Cryptic 28004 – 500 not yet out”