Author: jackkt

I found this quite hard in places and needed 59 minutes to complete the grid. As usual definitions are underlined in bold italics, {deletions and substitutions are in curly brackets} and [anagrinds, containment, reversal and … Read more “Times Cryptic 27422”

A mostly excellent puzzle but I didn’t find it easy and needed 2 minutes short of an hour to complete it. Great examples today of an &lit clue and a cryptic each of the highest … Read more “Times Cryptic 27416”

This is my 400th 15×15 blog for Times for the Times, my first having been on 23rd November 2007.  I’ve done a few Quickies too, but I’m still some way off my next milestone in that … Read more “Times Cryptic 27410”

I needed 59 minutes to complete this one but on refelection I’m not sure why. I shall be interested to read how others fared. As usual definitions are underlined in bold italics, {deletions and substitutions … Read more “Times Cryptic 27404”

There were one or two tricky or unknown bits and pieces here but I was not delayed by much and missed my half-hour target only by 2 minutes. As usual definitions are underlined in bold italics, … Read more “Times Cryptic 27398”

There were at least half-a-dozen unknown words or meanings in this one so I was pleased to complete it in 37 minutes aided considerably by very fair wordplay. The cattle disease, the bird and the … Read more “Times Cryptic 27392”