Author: JerryW

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”

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”

Solving Time: Normally I wouldn’t give a time. This is the first Times National Crossword Championship Qualifying puzzle of 2013. By tradition we don’t discuss solving times for these here, and also by tradition the … Read more “Times Crossword 25,451 – First Championship Qualifier (or not!)”

Solving Time: 22 minutes. It would have been five minutes or so less, but see 1ac below.. Still, only about average difficulty overall, I would guess. I found nothing significant to disagree with or complain … Read more “Times Crossword 25,439 – barking mad”

Solving Time: 24 minutes, about average for me on a blogging day, though I think this is definitely harder than some recent efforts, eg yesterday. I enjoyed it a lot and thought it had some … Read more “Times Crossword 25,427 – elementary, or fundamentally difficult?”

Solving Time: 24 minutes, so harder than average. I put in several answers on a wing and a prayer rather, and was relieved to find them all correct. I think there are a number of … Read more “Times Crossword 25,415 – Tricky”