Author: jackkt

This one took me 28 minutes including parsing everything along the way (or so I thought) so I expect the speed merchants have had a field day. I say ‘or so I thought’ because on … Read more “Times Cryptic 26348”

I found this one quite tricky and needed a little over an hour to complete it. As usual deletions are in curly brackets and indicators in square ones. Across 1 PROOF – PRO (master), OF … Read more “Times Cryptic 26342”

This one took me 45 minutes which on reflection seems rather excessive but I reserve the right to take extra care and double-check the parsing when it’s my day for blogging. Nothing strikes me as … Read more “Times Cryptic 26336”

A fairly straightforward puzzle to mark my first time filling in the Tuesdays between my regular 15×15 slots and I completed it in 26 minutes. The count of references to people in clues and answers … Read more “Times Cryptic 26330 – The blog wot I wrote…”

I needed 43 minutes to solve this rather tricky puzzle and extra time to understand some of the clues. My last one in was 14ac where there were only a couple of possibilities for the … Read more “Times Cryptic 26324”

I completed all but four answers in 30 minutes but needed another 15 to crack 4dn, 6dn, 12ac & 13ac. Most of clues are straightforward though the parsing at 9ac took a bit of thinking … Read more “Times Cryptic 26312”