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12:29. A relatively gentle offering from Dean this week, but still of the usual high quality. Nothing very obscure, although the insect noise at 6dn was new to me, and perhaps PICAROON isn’t quite an … Read more “Sunday Times 4764 by Dean Mayer – a monkey without a spatula”

11:30. No real problems this week, and another nice puzzle from our friend Harry. A number of neat touches but I particularly like the ‘split up’ device in 15dn. This is another puzzle with a … Read more “Sunday Times 4762 by David McLean”

DNF. I struggled with this, for reasons I largely can’t see now that I come to write up the blog. I failed at the end on FOIE GRAS, and I’m reasonably clear on why I … Read more “Sunday Times 4760 by Jeff Pearce – O Captain! My Captain!”

10:53. The new Puzzle Club doesn’t give scores or leaderboard positions for competition puzzles until the solution is published, so I don’t know whether my time for this puzzle is relatively fast or slow, or … Read more “Sunday Times 4758 by Dean Mayer”

21:50. I’m on holiday at the moment so I’ve got plenty of the stuff on my hands, but somehow I have found it more difficult than usual to find the time to write my blog. … Read more “Sunday Times 4756 by David McLean”

9:36. Pretty straightforward stuff, this, but I enjoyed it a lot. I can’t entirely put my finger on why but it just flowed very nicely. There’s very little by way of obscurity, although I didn’t … Read more “Sunday Times 4754 by Jeff Pearce”

20:48. Another excellent puzzle from Dean, and for my money a perfect level of challenge for a Sunday: tricky without being an absolute stinker. Actually I like an absolute stinker too, but my kids get … Read more “Sunday Times 4752 by Dean Mayer”

17:12. I’m writing this on a train from Cardiff to London immediately after solving the puzzle, so unlike last time I can actually remember something about it. I started quite quickly, and after five or … Read more “Sunday Times 4750 by David McLean”

18:08. I am writing this yesterday: I have been on holiday this week, so have not had time for the blog until now. As a result I can’t really remember much about the solve. My … Read more “Sunday Times 4748 by Jeff Pearce”

30:01. I struggled mightily with this, feeling miles off the wavelength all the way through. I did enjoy it though, in a masochistic kind of way. Going through it to write up the blog, as … Read more “Sunday Times 4746 by Dean Mayer”