Author: jackkt

The return to my original TftT userpic marks the 10th anniversary this week of my first blog which hardly seems possible as I didn’t start with much confidence and wasn’t sure I’d manage to last through … Read more “Times Cryptic 26888”

This was off the scale for me (95 minutes if you really want to know). There was a lot of very fine misdirection e.g. ‘around’ in 10ac which could have signalled anagram, containment or reversal but … Read more “Times Cryptic 26882”

This one delayed me for 44 minutes. Much of it was straightforward but I became bogged down over five clues, all on the right-hand side. There were two words unknown to me, one was the answer at … Read more “Times Cryptic 26876”

It’s Tuesday but this is another Monday puzzle judging by the time it took me to solve which was only 37 minutes. There’s one UK-centric acronym that may cause some head-scratching beyond these shores (and … Read more “Times Cryptic 26870”

Over an hour yet again, delayed and nearly defeated by an unknown foreign currency and yet another Ancient Greek clued with reference to an unknown Spanish dance. That said, this was mostly an entertaining and lively … Read more “Times Cryptic 26864”

My intermittent run of bad solving times continues with this one on which I spent 90 minutes and failed to complete without resorting to aids although there was only one answer that defeated me. And … Read more “Times Cryptic 26858”

I may have made heavy weather of this one because I took exactly an hour to complete it, but on reflection, when I came to write the blog it all seemed straightforward. As usual definitions are … Read more “Times Cryptic 26852”