Author: linxit

I’m working today (again) and trying to type up the blog as I’m sat here, but I logged on at 7:30 this morning and have hardly had a chance to look at it yet! And … Read more “Saturday Times 25532 (20th July)”

Solving time, probably over half an hour in the end, but only because of the infamous 12ac which seemed to catch most people out. As usual I was solving this on the Monday morning commute … Read more “Saturday Times 25526 (13th July)”

22:46 for this one, another tired solve on the Monday morning train (when will I learn that I’m no good on Mondays). Anyway, once again I’m working today and have been trying to put this … Read more “Saturday Times 25520 (7th July)”

Sorry I’m late with this – I’m actually working today so I had to squeeze it in when I could around supporting some application developers, who needed a lot more support than I’d anticipated! Anyway, … Read more “Saturday Times 25514 (29th June)”

Solving time 22:04, a bit slow for me but I solved it on the train after a long day at work and I was having trouble staying awake! Lots of good clues here; I particularly … Read more “Saturday Times 25508 (22nd June)”

Solving time was around 22 minutes for this, but I got one wrong (21ac), and have an unsatisfactory explanation for 1ac. Quite a testing puzzle, some long anagrams that required a bit of work to … Read more “Saturday Times 25502 (15th June)”

Over 45 minutes to solve, but I don’t think that reflects the difficulty of the puzzle. The four perimeter answers went in pretty quickly and I thought it was going to be another Saturday doddle, … Read more “Saturday Times 25496 (8th June)”

Solving time 13:43 (last week nearly all my times were between 13-14 minutes, apart from Friday’s which was 17). Enjoyable enough puzzle (apart from the groanworthy 21dn), continuing the run of fairly easy Saturday puzzles. … Read more “Saturday Times 25490 (1st June)”

Solving time 17:03, not much harder than the previous few weeks but I slowed myself down by putting in APOSTATE at 16dn without bothering to read the whole clue, which made 28 (one of the … Read more “Saturday Times 25484 (25th May)”

Solving time 13 minutes exactly. We seem to be having a run of easier puzzles on Saturdays lately. With the number of double definitions in this one I was wondering whether Rufus had joined the … Read more “Saturday Times 25478 (18th May)”