Author: jackkt

34 minutes for this one, so relatively straightforward apart from a couple of slightly dodgy definitions and one answer I didn’t know clued by a word I didn’t know, but the wordplay was helpful. For … Read more “Times Cryptic 26408 by Hayley Dixon”

Some of this was quite hard. I  solved all but one clue (28ac) in 30 minutes but after a further 10 I gave up and cheated to find a word that I have never heard … Read more “Times Cryptic 26402 – y’ere ’tis”

A fairly straightforward solve completed in 34 minutes, so just 4 minutes over my target time. I don’t think I have ever blogged a puzzle before that didn’t contain a single full anagram and with … Read more “Times Cryptic 26396”

I found this one quite hard work and although I made steady progress throughout and was never actually stuck for ideas, it was a bit of a long haul lasting some 65 minutes. There were … Read more “Times Cryptic 26390”

There were one or two unusual words or meanings but on the whole the wordplay was very precise (if somewhat convoluted in a few cases) and given sufficient time everything was gettable one way or … Read more “Times Cryptic 26384”

I solved this in 43 minutes but by contrast with the easy time I had of things last week, I found this was one of the most awkward blogs to write that I can remember. … Read more “Times Cryptic 26378”