Author: keriothe

The club timer shows 14:46 for this, but I lost my internet connection halfway through, so all the answers disappeared on submission and I had to type them in again. So about 11-12 minutes allowing … Read more “Sunday Times 4744 by David McLean”

This took me a little under 10 minutes, so from my perspective at least it wasn’t a difficult puzzle. But that is no bad thing, and I really enjoyed solving this one. It’s mostly impeccably … Read more “Sunday Times 4742 by Jeff Pearce”

8:09. Judging by other times on the leaderboard, it seems I was very much on the wavelength for this puzzle. It was a quick solve for one of Dean’s puzzles, but I thought it was … Read more “Sunday Times 4740 by Dean Mayer – First Lady of Song meets King of Pop”

17:08. I made slightly heavy weather of this one, putting GO OFF ON A TANGENT at 8dn and then not reconsidering it for far too long. This made 17ac difficult. I eventually sorted that out … Read more “Sunday Times 4738 by David McLean – irreverence tempered by competence”

10:57. No real problems with this puzzle, just a smattering of slightly trickier ones in amongst some pretty straightforward double definitions and suchlike. There are two clues in this puzzle that rely on the idea … Read more “Sunday Times 4736 – horseman hawk and hound”

19.33. Another very fine puzzle from Dean this week. I found it tricky, with numerous clues that had me scratching my head until the penny dropped. Looking at them now, as I write up the … Read more “Sunday Times 4734 by Dean Mayer”

13:30. Another fairly straightforward puzzle this week, so another week in which I have avoided silly error. There seem to be quite a few straightforward anagrams in this one, and there is nothing terribly obscure. … Read more “Sunday Times 4732 by David McLean – leave the gun”

9:29. A gentle offering from Jeff Pearce this week, and I’m pleased to report that my submission was all correct, which makes it unlikely that I am going to make quite as much of a … Read more “Sunday Times 4730 by Jeff Pearce”

DNF. I found this generally quite tricky, but had all but two clues solved in something like fifteen minutes. I then spent another ten or fifteen staring in increasing desperation at 12dn and 19dn. I … Read more “Sunday Times 4728 by Dean Mayer”

I would normally wait a week to post this, but the solution to this puzzle has already been published so I’ll just go ahead, now that I have a little bit of time in which … Read more “Sunday Times 4726 by David McLean”