Author: Kitty

Hi all, I hope you are keeping well. This was a jumbo with less of a trunk than a snout, complete with curly tail and a large oink!  I spent longer than I’d like to … Read more “Times Cryptic Jumbo 1435 – 18th April. Pork pies from the butcher’s”

Hello everyone.  I hope you and your loved ones are keeping safe and sane. This puzzle kept me entertained for longer than I expected after the first 80% or so.  A few stubborn patches of … Read more “Times Cryptic Jumbo No 1430 – 21st March. Double, double”

Hello all.  How do you eat a jumbo?  One bite at a time.  Once again I solved this in bitesize chunks and so don’t have a time.  From what I recall it slipped down ok … Read more “Times Cryptic Jumbo No 1425 – 15th February. Around (about) now”

Bleary-eyed greetings from London.  I found this jumbo unproblematic (no 17a) although I didn’t know the US writer, the poison or the oration and only dimly recalled a few other things.  My one error was … Read more “Times Cryptic Jumbo 1420 – 11th January 2020”

Jumbo New Year’s greetings to you all.  I hope you enjoyed the festive period whether or not you spent it in festive fashion (I did and didn’t, respectively) and look forward to meeting the challenges … Read more “Times Cryptic Jumbo 1415 – 21st December 2019”

Hello everyone.  This was a tricky one, I thought – and I hope you did too, because I had to use solving aids in places.  Moreover, the whole thing took me a time which I … Read more “Times Cryptic Jumbo 1410 – 16th November. Loadsatime”

Hi everyone.  I will have to be brief as I’ve had a millionty things to do. My solve looked at first like it would be pretty brief too (for a kitty), but alas it was … Read more “Times Cryptic Jumbo 1405 – 12th October. Curse and verse”

Hi all.  I had to fit this into a number of separate snatched moments, which is unfortunate because it makes it difficult to form any coherent overview of the puzzle.  Based on what I can … Read more “Times Cryptic Jumbo No 1400 – 7th September. The uncertainty principle”

Hello everyone, and happy weekend — it’s a nice long one here.  (Purr!) Thanks to the setter of this enjoyable puzzle which kept me out of mischief for around an hour.  It was a steady … Read more “Times Cryptic Jumbo No 1395 – 10th August. Cards and charades”

Hi everyone.  I can’t give you a time for this as I’ve been redonculously busy lately and have had to fit solving into spare moments, often on crowded trains … but I suspect if I … Read more “Times Cryptic Jumbo No 1390 – 6th July. Me Kitty: am snail”