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24:06 for this, ending in failure at 27ac, which contains a usage I have never encountered before. Judging by comments on the club forum I am not alone in this. There were a number of … Read more “Sunday Times 4636 by Tim Moorey”

12:33, including a brief interlude to flip over some grilling bacon, so a pretty straightforward solve. Jeff Pearce gets some stick for producing these straightforward puzzles, but I found this one very enjoyable. Across 1 … Read more “Sunday Times 4634 by Jeff Pearce”

18:33. I found most of this straightforward. In fact some of the clues are very easy indeed, a feature that elicited some complaints in last week’s puzzle. But of course there’s absolutely nothing wrong with … Read more “Sunday Times 4632 by Dean Mayer”

I’ve cobbled this together quickly at late notice, so forgive brevity and errors. As you’ll have read above, Dave Perry is no longer able to fulfil his fortnightly blogging duty, so you’ve got me today. … Read more “Sunday Times 4630 by Tim Moorey”

16:39. Relatively straightforward for a Dean Mayer puzzle but very enjoyable as always. There are a few definitions in here that strike me as odd and/or loose: I’ll be interested to hear what others think. … Read more “Sunday Times 4629 by Dean Mayer”

I don’t have a proper time for this, because I got interrupted half-way through, but I spent a total of about 15 minutes on it. This included a few minutes at the end puzzling over … Read more “Sunday Times 4627 by Tim Moorey”

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”