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”
Author: JerryW
I love The Times crosswords..
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”
Club Monthly 20152 May 2013 – Error-strewn edition
Solving Time: Not too bad, something around the hour I think, but sadly with two errors somewhere. I can’t see any typos, so I hope they will surface as I write the blog… (they did, … Read more “Club Monthly 20152 May 2013 – Error-strewn edition”
Times Crossword 25,469 – Sexplorative Edition
Solving Time: 24 minutes, so about average for a blogging day. One or two unfamiliar words, and one or two obscure bits of wordplay that I hope I will fathom as I write the blog.. … Read more “Times Crossword 25,469 – Sexplorative Edition”
Times Crossword 25,463 – Statuary edition
Solving Time: 28 minutes, so somewhat harder than usual, not at all helped by me starting off by boldly writing in stupidly incorrect answers for both 1ac and 5ac. One or two less common words … Read more “Times Crossword 25,463 – Statuary edition”