Solving Time: 22 minutes on the club timer, but that does include printing the crossword off, pouring a nice glass of wine, settling down in an armchair, solving on paper, entering all the answers later … Read more “Times Crossword 25,571 – don’t mention the answers..”
Author: JerryW
I love The Times crosswords..
Club Monthly 20155 August 2013 – endangered species edition
Solving Time: I rattled through this in just over 40 minutes, very quick for me so I guess this one must be on the easy side. Jason and Magoo I notice managed to complete it … Read more “Club Monthly 20155 August 2013 – endangered species edition”
Mephisto 2764, 18 August 2013
Solving Time: Quite a while, an hour or more. I did the crossword in odd moments over several days, so no time recorded. I found it somewhat harder than average, but maybe I’m just out … Read more “Mephisto 2764, 18 August 2013”
Times Crossword 25,559 – Pussyfoot Edition
Solving Time: This took me 35 minutes. It seems well on the harder side of average to me, (again – was it something I said?!) and includes some nifty vocab, as well as several quite … Read more “Times Crossword 25,559 – Pussyfoot Edition”
Times Crossword 25,547 – Do give a damn
Solving Time: About 20 minutes. I thought this of roughly average difficulty. It has some excellent clues and I enjoyed it. cd = cryptic definition, dd = double definition, rev = reversed, anagrams are *(–), … Read more “Times Crossword 25,547 – Do give a damn”
Times Crossword 25,535 – welcome back to blogging edition
Solving Time: Hmm, is it just me or is this quite a hard crossword? I am out of blogging practice, and it took me over forty minutes to solve this. However it felt like a … Read more “Times Crossword 25,535 – welcome back to blogging edition”
Club Monthly 20153 June 2013 – Absentee Blogger Edition
Solving Time: Just under 40 minutes, in two sessions. So, rather easy, in fact this may be the easiest club monthly I’ve blogged. The first five acrosses went straight in, unheard of for me.. nevertheless … Read more “Club Monthly 20153 June 2013 – Absentee Blogger Edition”
Times Crossword 25,499 – Second Championship Qualifier
Solving Time: Traditionally we don’t discuss these, for the qualifying competition. Disclosing your time will merely give others either a probably unjustified sense of optimism, or an unhelpful gloomy feeling. Suffice it to say that … Read more “Times Crossword 25,499 – Second Championship Qualifier”
Times Crossword 10,334 – Another Antique!
Solving Time: About 22 minutes. We have another offering from the 1960s today, as the second qualifier is published. I thought this a pleasant, essentially fair crossword, if a little strange in places. It didn’t … Read more “Times Crossword 10,334 – Another Antique!”
Times Crossword 25,487 – abstinent edition
Solving Time: 22 minutes, so about average difficulty. It would have been a bit quicker but I couldn’t persuade firefox to print off the darn crossword, it kept freezing. I confess I didn’t greatly enjoy … Read more “Times Crossword 25,487 – abstinent edition”