Another fairly straightforward Saturday puzzle for New Year’s Eve, for which I stopped the clock at 15:01. I almost misspelt 19D, but saw the cryptic and knew the alternative spelling. Reading through the forum posts, … Read more “Saturday Times 25047 (31st Dec) – back to normal”
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Saturday Times 25041 (24th Dec)
The Christmas Eve puzzle was given an extended deadline, so I couldn’t post the blog until today. 13:22 here, so not too hard with two 15- and two 14-letter entries which went in pretty quickly … Read more “Saturday Times 25041 (24th Dec)”
Sotira’s Survey Results
As you may have seen in the comments below, Sotira has finished compiling the results of the survey she put together for us just before Christmas, and they make for some interesting reading. Not the … Read more “Sotira’s Survey Results”
Saturday Times 25035 (Dec 17th)
Well, here it is at last! I forgot to note down my time when solving it over two weeks ago, but I remember it being on the tricky side. An unknown poet and two abbreviations … Read more “Saturday Times 25035 (Dec 17th)”
Times 25042
Posting on behalf of mctext, who pulled out all the stops to send me this before going away for a few days. Unfortunately I’m only now able to post it, but better late than never! … Read more “Times 25042”
TfTT Christmas Survey
Regular contributor Sotira has put together a survey for us to complete, and I’m sure some interesting statistics will come out of it in the new year. It should only take about 5 minutes, so … Read more “TfTT Christmas Survey”
Saturday Times 25029 (Dec 10th)
17:34 for this one – mostly not too hard but I got into difficulties with 17D/29A, as I had 17 ending in D which left 29 as an unlikely-looking set of checking letters ?D?N?N?E?E. Worked … Read more “Saturday Times 25029 (Dec 10th)”
Saturday Times 25023 (Dec 3rd)
Solving time 13:20 – a bit of a relief to have an easier one after the previous two monsters. There was a bit of tricky vocabulary and some GK required for this one, but the … Read more “Saturday Times 25023 (Dec 3rd)”
Championship final puzzles – the champion’s view
After the Times Crossword Championship final back in October, I asked Mark Goodliffe to write up some notes on the Final puzzles for inclusion in the blog, expecting they’d publish all three on the following … Read more “Championship final puzzles – the champion’s view”
Saturday Times 25017 (26th Nov)
Sick dog, sick wife, no time to post this morning. Will try later once I’ve had them put down. OK, back from the knacker’s yard with an extra fiver in my pocket to show for … Read more “Saturday Times 25017 (26th Nov)”