Author: Kitty

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”

Hi everyone, and Happy Caturday. A great crossword to savour, I thought.  It took me something like a couple of hours over a few sessions but yielded to applied thinking, with plenty of lovely aha! … Read more “Times Cryptic Jumbo 1465 – 24th October. Lots of highs”

Hello all, from a murky and moist Surrey.  As Storm Alex blew in I realised that the last storm season has passed without reaching K, which I had been rather looking forward to. I plodded … Read more “Times Cryptic Jumbo 1460 – 19th September. Bad news …”

Hi all.  A quick one from me this week.  I’ve been a busy bee, and now my brain is so scrambled that I don’t know what kind of creature I am, let alone have anything … Read more “Times Cryptic Jumbo 1455 – 22nd August”

Hi everyone, I hope this blog finds you well.  I haven’t managed to so much as look at TfTT for some time, but it’s not because I don’t love you!  I’ve been busy with the … Read more “Times Cryptic Jumbo 1450 – 18th July. From gold stars to planet Earth”