Author: keriothe

9:53. A fairly straightforward puzzle from Harry this week, with nothing unknown to me in the answers and only one unfamiliar city in the wordplay. A few rather painfully topical clues in this age of … Read more “Sunday Times 4900 by David McLean – pandemic edition”

22:20. I’m writing this on Saturday evening, having just watched Brief Encounter with my wife. I’d like to thank jackkt in particular and others for recommending it, because it is a really wonderful movie. The … Read more “Sunday Times 4898 by Dean Mayer”

8:38. Not a difficult puzzle but a fun solve, partly because of the unusual grid: apart from the long ones across and down the middle all the answers are eight-letter words, and if you can … Read more “Sunday Times 4896 by Robert Price – off the grid”

9:40. Greetings from a quarantined household. One of my kids developed a persistent dry cough a little under a week ago (he’s fine – the cough disappeared without any other symptoms) so we’ve been confined … Read more “Sunday Times 4894 by David McLean”

14:49. This one started very easy (1ac went straight in) but then got trickier, culminating in a very long pause at the end over 3dn. When I eventually figured out what was going on, it … Read more “Sunday Times 4892 by Dean Mayer – déjà vu”

36:54. An absolute stinker from Bob this week. I had most of it done within about 15 minutes but I was left with two or three unsolved in the NW, NE and SW corners and … Read more “Sunday Times 4890 by Robert Price – ouch!”

20:40. I have left the blog very late this week (I’m typing this on Saturday evening) so I am short of time and don’t remember much about this puzzle. I obviously found it hard but … Read more “Sunday Times 4888 by David McLean”

15:03. A puzzle of medium difficulty, I thought, and of the usual high quality. Quite a high cryptic definition count, at four. This sort of clue isn’t universally liked, so this will not please everyone … Read more “Sunday Times 4886 by Dean Mayer – same number same hood”

19:29. I thought this was quite tricky, but a really interesting puzzle with some excellent clues and a nice range of references. No literature to speak of, but nothing too obscure other than perhaps the … Read more “Sunday Times 4884 by Robert Price – galled rocks”

26:44. The last Sunday before Christmas has been a Jumbo in recent years, so I was surprised and I confess a little disappointed to open this one and see a standard 15×15 grid. Apparently the … Read more “Sunday Times 4882 by Dean Mayer”