Author: keriothe

8:30. A nice easy one from Harry this week. Only one unknown (the garment), mostly pretty straightforward wordplay and only one query (at 20dn). Quite a lot of anagrams. Definitions are underlined, anagrams indicated like … Read more “Sunday Times 4856 by David McLean”

10:30. Another excellent puzzle from Bob, which I didn’t find particularly hard but nonetheless managed to stuff up, paying insufficient attention to the wordplay at 13ac and bunging in the wrong vehicle. Drat. Loads of … Read more “Sunday Times 4854 by Robert Price – so much winning”

21:23. This was a superb puzzle, I thought. Vintage Dean, with loads of clues that I had to look at three or four times before they succumbed, and with lots of ‘eureka’ moments along the … Read more “Sunday Times 4852 by Dean Mayer”

8m. A gentle one this week. No unknowns for me, although the answer at 22ac is one of those (many) things I think I only know from crosswords. Not much more to say on this … Read more “Sunday Times 4850 by David McLean”

9:55. Not too hard a puzzle from Myrtilus this week. Well either that or I’m getting attuned to his ways as a setter, which seems unlikely after such a short time. A really fun one, … Read more “Sunday Times 4848 by Robert Price”

16:56. I did most of this pretty quickly and had all but two clues solved in under ten minutes, but then I hit a total roadblock on 10ac and 2dn and wasted the rest of … Read more “Sunday Times 4846 by Dean Mayer – time torn off unused”

11:36. Fairly straightforward from Harry this week. Only one unfamiliar term, mostly straightforward wordplay and definitions. A tidy set of clues though, with some nice surface readings. Definitions are underlined, anagrams indicated like (THIS)*, anagram … Read more “Sunday Times 4844 by David McLean”

24:48. This is the first puzzle from the new setter replacing Jeff Pearce. His name is Bob Price, and as we heard from Peter Biddlecombe last week (see comments here) he is a regular winner … Read more “Sunday Times 4842 by Robert Price”

14:29. This was another very straightforward puzzle by Dean’s standards, I thought. There’s the hint of a theme in here: something about an INIQUITOUS place where there are NO HALF MEASURES and HEDONISTs and HOOLIGANS … Read more “Sunday Times 4840 by Dean Mayer”

11:50. I found this pretty easy for one of Dean’s, but it is typically brilliant in a way I’ve tried to highlight below. Significantly though this week’s puzzle isn’t one of Jeff Pearce’s: as Peter … Read more “Sunday Times 4838 by Dean Mayer”