Author: jackkt

I’ve no solving time to offer for this one as I was interrupted and lost track of it, but somewhere between 40 minutes and an hour. As usual definitions are underlined in bold italics, {deletions and … Read more “Times Cryptic 27458”

I needed only  36 minutes for this mostly very straightforward puzzle. I imagine the speed-merchants will have a field day. All good solid stuff with one really outstanding definition in my view. As usual definitions … Read more “Times Cryptic 27452”

Solving time: 41 minutes. I found this one quite straightforward. Although there were a couple of obscurities they didn’t delay me unduly. As usual definitions are underlined in bold italics, {deletions and substitutions are in curly … Read more “Times Cryptic 27446”

At 32 minutes I found this quite straightforward although 12ac as my LOI gave me more trouble than it should have. I expect to see some very fast times from the speed-merchants. As usual definitions are … Read more “Times Cryptic 27440”

I needed 55 minutes for a technical DNF. I found this a mixture of the very easy and the quite tricky plus two unknowns (at 5dn and 6dn) which I eventually gave up on and resorted to … Read more “Times Cryptic 27434”

I’ve no solving time to offer as I dozed off for a while with barely half of the grid completed. I had started well in the NW corner and thought it was going to be very easy but … Read more “Times Cryptic 27428”