Author: keriothe

This took me 18 minutes, but I made a silly mistake. I seem to be doing this a lot at the moment. I found this quite tricky: there’s a lot of stuff in here I … Read more “Sunday Times 4625 by Jeff Pearce”

I don’t have a time for this. Being called upon to repair a cello halfway through doesn’t half mess with solving speed, don’t you find? By the time I’d done that I didn’t have time … Read more “Sunday Times 4623 by Dean Mayer”

39:15. I wasn’t expecting a Jumbo when I opened this puzzle, and I might have waited for a better moment if I had known, because I was feeling decidedly under the weather. However having started … Read more “The Sunday Times Christmas crossword by Tim Moorey.”

13:16. A solid effort from Jeff Pearce this week. Most of it is fairly standard stuff, but there are one or two very neat clues. Not a desperately hard puzzle, but there’s nothing wrong with … Read more “Sunday Times 4619 by Jeff Pearce”

33.26. I found this very tough at the time, but going through it nearly a week later I can’t really see why. The unknown Indonesian city and a couple of the clues crossing it caused … Read more “Sunday Times 4617 by Dean Mayer”

8:21. Another straightforward puzzle from Tim Moorey, but that didn’t prevent me from making a horlicks of it with a particularly stupid mistake. Drat. Not much else to say really so I’ll just get on … Read more “Sunday Times 4615 by Tim Moorey”

9:40 for what is largely a plain vanilla puzzle. There’s one I can’t explain though, which is a bit embarrassing. Doubtless someone will be along to help shortly. Across 1 Author‘s strong feelings in intros … Read more “Sunday Times 4613 by Jeff Pearce”

Nice to put some faces to names at the championship yesterday. Unfortunately I seem to have picked up some sort of bug from my kids so wasn’t really in the mood for the pub, but … Read more “Sunday Times 4611 by Dean Mayer – does it hurt? Every time.”

7:49. Another in a run of easy Sunday puzzles. The daily puzzles have been a bit tough for the last few weeks though, so a bit of light relief is welcome. Across 1 One to … Read more “Sunday Times 4609 by Tim Moorey”

Oh dear. My personal crosswording bugbear is when an obscure word is clued in a way that makes it impossible to get the answer with certainty if you don’t know said obscure word, and in … Read more “Sunday Times 4607 by Jeff Pearce: roll the dice”