Author: keriothe

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”

7:34. No problems this week: nothing too obscure in either definitions or wordplay, the odd minor query here and there but a fun puzzle with some nice touches. Definitions are underlined, anagrams indicated like (THIS)*, … Read more “Sunday Times 4832 by Jeff Pearce”

As is traditional at this time of year, the last Sunday Times puzzle to appear before Christmas is a jumbo, and as is also somewhat traditional at this time of year, it’s a bit of … Read more “Sunday Times 4830 by Dean Mayer – Christmas Jumbo”

Just a quick note for anyone expecting a blog for this puzzle today: as usual at Christmas the closing date for the Sunday puzzle is extended by a week, so the blog will appear on … Read more “Sunday Times 4830 by Dean Mayer”

9:54. A very straightforward puzzle from Harry this week, but with some lovely touches. But I’m short of time this week so without further ado… Definitions are underlined, anagrams indicated like (THIS)*, anagram indicators like … Read more “Sunday Times 4828 by David McLean – physician heal thyself”

13:18. Nothing too hard this week. The bird at 4dn has come up before, including in a puzzle I blogged some time back, and I remembered it. This is perhaps fortunate because the wordplay strikes … Read more “Sunday Times 4826 by Jeff Pearce”

9:33. This was unusually easy for a Dean Mayer puzzle, as far as I was concerned anyway. There’s been some discussion of the Baader-Meinhof phenomenon (also known as the frequency illusion) here lately, and the … Read more “Sunday Times 4824 by Dean Mayer”

Good morning all. I have been travelling for most of the last week so I have had little time to solve, comment or write my blog. As I result I am typing this on Saturday … Read more “Sunday Times 4822 by David McLean – everything else is obsolete”