Author: JerryW

Solving Time: 22 minutes, plus a few to check some parsings. About average for a blooging day, but I was slow to get started and it didn’t feel easy. I’m pleased with the time, in … Read more “Times Crossword 25,774 – Steamy Edition”

Solving Time: Apparently there is a tradition that we do not state times for completing qualifiers, as it might be either seen as boasting or off-putting, depending presumably on the time. (query: doesn’t that go … Read more “Times Crossword 25,762 – First Championship Qualifier”

OK, well, I got about two thirds of this done, all the top half and the odd clue (and golly, some of them are very odd) in the bottom half. I now have a completed … Read more “Times Cryptic 31961 – Thank Heavens for Ximenes…”

Solving Time: 22 minutes; about average difficulty. Some very neat clues though I thought, and no real quibbles. Apologies if the blog is a little sketchy; I’m off on an early ferry to France today … Read more “Times Crossword 25,750 – Et in Gallifrey ego”

Solving Time: 17 minutes for a fairly gentle crossword with few obscurities. Well none at all, really, apart perhaps from naseberries. Another good showing for technology, with octals and ergs and rhombs.. cd = cryptic … Read more “Times Crossword 25,738 – a Brazilian coin treat”

Solving Time: 26 minutes.. so a bit harder than average but not unduly so. As we saw yesterday it can be hard to judge a crossword mid-blog, as it were.. but I thought this a … Read more “Times Crossword 25,726 – tutti-frutti?”

Solving Time: 26 minutes. Having got 1ac and 1dn while the crossword was coming off the printer, I thought I was in for an easy one for once, but it was not to be. I … Read more “Times Crossword 25,714 – somewhere in Europe”

Solving Time: 24 minutes, once again with one wrong, this time a simple typo. I solve on paper and then tend to be a bit 8dn filling in the online grid, leaving me 27ac when … Read more “Times Crossword 25,702 – sporting no undies?”