Author: keriothe

8:59. I’m on holiday at the moment and our wifi is extremely dodgy so I’m going to keep this short. Not a difficult puzzle but a model of elegance, as we’ve come to expect from this setter. Lovely stuff.

22:14. I found this decidedly tricky, and as I solved I thought some of it was a bit loose.

21:33. I found this very tough for reasons I now can’t put my finger on. It all seems so straightforward now, which is often the mark of a very good puzzle.

Another first-class effort from Mr Price. Not especially difficult but some lovely devious touches that meant you had to be on your guard.

DNF

13:51, but with one silly error. I know perfectly well how to spell the town on the Isle of Wight but somehow allowed my false assumption about how to spell the golf tournament override that knowledge. Drat.

11:13. I really enjoyed this puzzle, and writing the blog up it was striking how simple many of the clues are. It’s a real model of concise elegance.

Welcome to the new home of Times for the Times. It’s great to have this brilliant new site up and running, and an honour to be one of the first to post.

12:26. Another excellent puzzle. There were one or two in this one that I found a bit odd, but if that’s the price for Dean’s extraordinary creativity it’s one I’m happy to pay. What a great setter he is.

12:30. A fairly gentle puzzle from Bob this week, with several very simply-constructed clues and no difficult words other than 27ac, which is very clearly indicated. Definitions are underlined, anagrams indicated like (TIHS)*, anagram indicators … Read more “Sunday Times 5002 by Robert Price”