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Times for The Times: Times and comments on The Times crossword from a team of solvers

Author: linxit

Saturday Times 25681 (11th Jan)

Author   linxitPosted on 19th January 2014 at 8:13 AM10 September 2025Categories Weekend Cryptic

Sorry this is a day late. Solved in about 15 mins on the train on Wednesday evening. 1ac went straight in, but then I went blank for a bit and the next one in was … Read more “Saturday Times 25681 (11th Jan)”

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Saturday Times 25675 (4th Jan)

Author   linxitPosted on 11th January 2014 at 6:35 AM10 September 2025Categories Weekend Cryptic

Solving time 15:33, with a couple of minutes at the end spent puzzling over 11ac and 5dn. Good to be back to normal with only a week between puzzle and blog. Quite a lot of … Read more “Saturday Times 25675 (4th Jan)”

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Saturday Times 25669 (28th December)

Author   linxitPosted on 10th January 2014 at 5:59 AM10 September 2025Categories Weekend Cryptic

Sorry I’m a day late with this one, not used to blogging during the week and forgot I was due to post this one yesterday. For me, easiest Saturday puzzle in quite a while, solved … Read more “Saturday Times 25669 (28th December)”

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Saturday Times 25664 (21st December)

Author   linxitPosted on 4th January 2014 at 8:21 AM10 September 2025Categories Weekend Cryptic

Solving time 14:42, again I had to wait two weeks before doing the blog due to the extended closing date, so can’t remember too much about it now. I loved the long hidden reversal at … Read more “Saturday Times 25664 (21st December)”

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Saturday Times 25658 (14th Dec)

Author   linxitPosted on 28th December 2013 at 9:21 AM10 September 2025Categories Weekend Cryptic

A two-week delay for this one due to the deadline being extended until today due to the Christmas post. The same applies to last week’s puzzle, which will be blogged on 4th Jan, then this … Read more “Saturday Times 25658 (14th Dec)”

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The Puzzle of all Puzzles by Anax – Setter’s blog

Author   linxitPosted on 15th December 2013 at 4:44 PM10 September 2025Categories Announcement

I came upstairs just now to do my own Saturday blog (yeah, I know, things don’t always work out as planned) and also this one (to be found on page 26 of this week’s Sunday … Read more “The Puzzle of all Puzzles by Anax – Setter’s blog”

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Saturday Times 25652 (7th Dec) – placeholder

Author   linxitPosted on 14th December 2013 at 8:59 AM10 September 2025Categories Weekend Cryptic

Xmas shopping takes precedence today I’m afraid, but I’ll have plenty of time to do it this evening. Watch this space…well, sorry, that didn’t work out as planned, but here it is anyway (very brief … Read more “Saturday Times 25652 (7th Dec) – placeholder”

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Saturday Times 25646 (30th Nov)

Author   linxitPosted on 7th December 2013 at 10:33 AM10 September 2025Categories Weekend Cryptic

Solving time approx. 20 minutes. Again I didn’t get around to solving it until Friday evening, but at least that means it’s still fresh in my mind! Pretty good puzzle, but not as tricky as … Read more “Saturday Times 25646 (30th Nov)”

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Saturday Times 25640 (23rd Nov)

Author   linxitPosted on 30th November 2013 at 8:31 AM10 September 2025Categories Weekend Cryptic

Solving time about 20 mins. I didn’t actually get around to this until I was on the way home from work last night, started it quite late in the journey and finished it when I … Read more “Saturday Times 25640 (23rd Nov)”

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Saturday Times 25634 (16th Nov)

Author   linxitPosted on 23rd November 2013 at 1:07 PM10 September 2025Categories Weekend Cryptic

A mini cricket theme in some of the clues and solutions of this one, appropriately as the first test in Brisbane is under way now. Solving time was about 18 minutes, on the train on … Read more “Saturday Times 25634 (16th Nov)”

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