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17:23. Dean is on top form this week, producing a really superb puzzle. There are lots of good clues in this but I particularly liked 14ac. 10dn also deserves a mention just because it’s such … Read more “Sunday Times 4952 by Dean Mayer”

12:48. I didn’t find this particularly hard but I did find it particularly delightful. A really super puzzle full of wit and lovely penny-drop moments. Thank you very much Bob for a quarter-hour of great … Read more “Sunday Times 4950 by Robert Price”

8:15. A very unusual grid this week: one that I don’t remember seeing before. The long series of unchecked lights black squares around the edges give it an odd look, and there are no short … Read more “Sunday Times 4948 by David McLean”

14:19. Good fun, as usual. Lots to enjoy, and I particularly liked ‘near waterworks’. There were a few unknowns in here for me but the wordplay was sufficiently helpful. Definitions are underlined, anagrams indicated like … Read more “Sunday Times 4946 by Dean Mayer”

17:34. An absolute corker of a puzzle from Bob this week, with a bonus theme. As well as the explicit references to the comedians at 14ac and 23dn, there are three references to their work … Read more “Sunday Times 4944 by Robert Price”

7:21. A pretty straightforward puzzle this week from Harry, but a quirky one, with some unusual vocabulary (1ac, 18ac, 4dn) and some quite oblique definitions. I remain puzzled by one clue – 6dn – where … Read more “Sunday Times 4942 by David McLean”

14:16, but with a silly error. A fun puzzle though with some lovely clues. A few unfamiliar things – the lizard, one of the meanings in 7dn, 24dn – but all clearly indicated. Four cryptic … Read more “Sunday Times 4940 – in the soup”

12:15. A fun puzzle that didn’t cause me many problems. My only real pause was over 7dn, where I couldn’t figure out how the wordplay worked. In the end I just bunged it in and … Read more “Sunday Times 4938 by Robert Price”

13:55. A medium-difficulty puzzle from Harry this week. There were quite a few cryptic definitions, which won’t be to everyone’s taste. I quite liked these though, particularly the clever 14ac and 3dn. Clue of the … Read more “Sunday Times 4936 by David McLean”

11:35. The Sunday Times puzzle before Christmas always used to be a jumbo, so I was expecting extended blogging duty this week. I had forgotten that last year the jumbo was the puzzle after Christmas, … Read more “Sunday Times 4934 by Dean Mayer”