Author: JerryW

Solving Time: About 15 minutes, a little faster than average for a blogging day. There are one or two tricky clues, but otherwise I don’t think there is much to detain the quicker solver for … Read more “Times Crossword 25,403, 20 February 2013”

Solving Time: About 40 minutes, but I’m not feeling good today having done something painful to my back. You only discover just how many activities involve bending, when you no longer can. The crossword did … Read more “Times Crossword 25,391”

Solving Time: just over 21 minutes. It felt a relative canter compared to yesterday’s, but there are some tricky clues, and some very elegant ones.. I have three clues with wordplay currently unaccounted for, but … Read more “Times Crossword 25,379 – not spam-free, but homophone-free”

Solving Time: about 20 minutes, in other words about averagely hard. I thought it a pleasant, well constructed crossword, with some clever cluing – a model Times cryptic. Unfortunately I managed to include a typo … Read more “Times Crossword 25,367 – Homophony”

Solving Time: About 25 minutes, but the last five spent on 20dn. This is one of the four “Vintage Olympic cryptic puzzles” printed on the Crossword Club website today, and my second blog of the … Read more “Times Crossword 21,522 26 Dec 2012 – remembering the Sydney Olympics”

Solving Time: 22 minutes, which seems to be about average for me at present. Fairly straightforward stuff, helped by an easy 1ac and 2dn. The only unknown for me was the French writer (as usual) … Read more “Times Crossword 25,355 – are you getting your Five A Day?”

Solving Time: 26 minutes, about average for my blog efforts. I suspect this may be on the harder side rather than the easier. It calls for some general knowledge (quite right too), a wee bit … Read more “Times Crossword 25,344 – an explosive event”