Author: jackkt

I completed this in 33 minutes so it would rank among the easier puzzles of recent days but for the fact that I had one careless error. There are a couple of words or meanings … Read more “Times Cryptic 26636”

This took me 25 minutes and was very easy apart from an unknown word for a cat at 25ac and a verbal meaning of a noun at 15dn that I have never come across before. … Read more “Times Cryptic 26630”

This took me 36 minutes but I ended with one careless error at 4ac. I also lost time along the way having biffed wrong  answers at 1dn and 17dn which gave me incorrect checkers for … Read more “Times 26624”

I had problems with this one solved over two sessions and probably need most of an hour in all. In particular I came to grief in the SW corner where the French word eluded me … Read more “Times 26618”

Due to an error at the Times, the cryptic puzzle published in Thursday’s newspaper and accessed via the online newspaper was different from the one that appeared on the Club site and it was the … Read more “15 x15 puzzle Thursday 5th January”

This one took me  44 minutes with time lost by having GIN at 7dn based on G{a}IN (get) [a reduced] and the definition as “alcoholic drink”. Here’s my blog… As usual definitions are underlined in … Read more “Times Cryptic 26612”