Author: jackkt

This continued my run of troubled solves that took me well beyond my 30 minute target. On reflection I can’t really see what gave me so many problems, although if I’d known the name of … Read more “Times Cryptic Number 26558”

I needed more than an hour for this one but as 60 minutes approached, when I might sometimes have decided to cut my losses,  I was still confident that I could solve it without reference … Read more “Times Cryptic Number 26552”

After yesterday’s blog by proxy, here’s one of my own. This one presented a few problems in the solving and even more in the blogging where I found some of the parsing quite tricky to … Read more “Times Cryptic 26546”

I’m posting this on behalf of Hugh (ulaca) who is unable to do so himself for reasons he explains below. I only received this an hour or so ago and I haven’t had a chance … Read more “Times 26545 – Swansong (now cancelled!!)”

My problems finishing off continued today and I resorted to aids for two answers as the hour approached. The one at 7dn I should have got but I was still missing the first checker and … Read more “Times Cryptic 26540”

This one took me far too long over several sessions and there were at least two clues where I had to rethink the parsing several times before coming up (I hope) with the goods. There … Read more “Times Cryptic 26534”

This one took me a leisurely 37 minutes so I imagine some of the speed-merchants will be home within 10 today. There’s a reminder of the winter weather to come at 17ac and 16dn, and … Read more “Times Cryptic 26528 – A Touch of Frost”