Author: jackkt

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”

Back to slow form for me for this one, I’m afraid, as I clocked up nearly an hour. I thought I was in for an easy ride as the NW corner was so easy that … Read more “Times Cryptic 26846”

Most of my recent 15×15 solves have taken me well beyond my 30 minute target and this one at 50 minutes is yet another example. I found the top easier than the lower half where … Read more “Times Cryptic 26840”

I needed 10 minutes over the hour for this one and still ended up with a wrong answer having transposed two letters of anagrist in an unknown word. It was fortunate that the wordplay elsewhere was … Read more “Times Cryptic 26834”

I needed 43 minutes for this. There was quite a lot of biffing going on and in addition I bunged in a few words that fitted, hoping for the best and leaving the explanations for … Read more “Times Cryptic 26828”