Author: Kitty

Hello all, I hope you enjoyed the bank holiday.  What bank holiday? I hear you say.  Yes, two weeks can be a long time, especially in crosswordland. I wouldn’t win any prizes for time with … Read more “Times Cryptic Jumbo 1515 – Monday 30th August 2021. My 21a is flagging”

Hi everyone.  Jumbo bloggers will be familiar with the “well that was fun, now I have a mammoth load of clues to blog” feeling.  I decided to more-or-less write this one up as I went … Read more “Times Cryptic Jumbo 1510 – 31st July 2021. Sous-titre drôle”

Hi all.  I left this until the last minute, and with post-work bleariness setting in am not feeling chatty.  I found it a Jumbo of medium difficulty, though I didn’t quite manage to finish without … Read more “Times Cryptic Jumbo 1505 – 26th June 2021. Pounds, Shillings and Expense”

Hello everybody.  For the third time in a row my blogging day fell on the Saturday before a bank holiday; this time, however, there is a special occasion to mark — and marked it is … Read more “Times Cryptic Jumbo 1500 – 29th May 2021. Much Difficulty”

Hi everyone.  Thanks to the setter for this chewy but tasty offering to kick off the bank holiday weekend.  I had been forewarned about the difficulty and so allowed myself a couple of sessions.  There … Read more “Times Cryptic Jumbo 1495 – 1st May 2021. Ding: dang! Walla walla rhubarb”

Hello all.  Penfold has already posted the blog for Easter Monday’s 1491, so I must fill in the gap left by the previous Saturday’s Jumbo.  Apologies for jumbling the jumbo sequence. This one kept me … Read more “Times Cryptic Jumbo 1490 – 3rd April 2021. At sea in a sieve”

Hi all.  Another five weeks has disappeared to wherever time goes. The top slightly-less-than half of this gave me little trouble, but then I flagged, with the SE corner in particular giving me no little … Read more “Times Cryptic Jumbo 1485 – 27th February 2021”

Hello everyone. Very nice, very gentle, very little else to say.  I hope you are feeling chattier than I am, or the poor setter will wonder what a person has to do to get a … Read more “Times Cryptic Jumbo 1480 – 23rd January 2021. 6d in a Teacup”

Hi all.  This was the Boxing Day bank holiday (substitute day) puzzle, Boxing Day itself having been a Saturday, with its very own regular Jumbo.  It was a good season at least for Jumbo lovers … Read more “Times Cryptic Jumbo 1475 – 28th December 2020. Polishing off the year”

Hello to you all, on my last Jumbo blog of 2020.  Where has the year gone?  (And if your automatic answer to that is swear-free, you’re a better human than me!)  Anyway, I wish you … Read more “Times Cryptic Jumbo 1470 – 28th November”