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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”

24:39. A magnificent toughie from Dean this week, I thought. A lot of the difficulty here is in the definitions, which often use secondary and/or oblique meanings of words. As is often the case with … Read more “Sunday Times 4836 by Dean Mayer”

8:07. Unusually straightforward from Harry this week. Less unusually a fun puzzle with some witty clues. I think my favourite was 26ac, just because I like to see words like that in these things. I … Read more “Sunday Times 4834 by David McLean”