Author: linxit

Solving time – at least half an hour over two sessions. Help needed still for a couple of answers, as I can’t explain 21ac and 14dn. The rest of it was tricky too, but generally … Read more “SaturdayTimes 24975 (8th Oct)”

Solving time 3:44 (not really – I was interrupted after the first few minutes with maybe half a dozen clues solved and forgot to restart the stopwatch). Around 15 minutes or so as a rough … Read more “Saturday Times 24969 (1st Oct)”

Solving time 26:42, great puzzle with some brilliant anagrams. More later, time normally reserved for blogging taken up by excruciating rugby match, but at least we got there in the end! Sorry for the late … Read more “Times Saturday 24963 (24th Sept)”

Solving time 51:34, but although tricky in places I don’t think it was all *that* hard! I decided to solve it on the train on the way home on Monday, but unfortunately ended up next … Read more “Saturday Times 24957 (17th Sept)”

Solving time 14:27. Pretty good puzzle made all the better for the inclusion of 7D, which harks back to L. May’s winning entry in the Dec. 1973 Azed competition – Bust down reason? (9) for … Read more “Saturday Times 24951 (9th Sept)”

Solving time 14:31, solved as a warm-up before tackling Anax’s brilliant Sunday Times debut, which took nearly twice as long. Not that there was much wrong with this one – I thought 5D was particularly … Read more “Saturday Times 24945 (3rd Sept)”

A dozy 25 minutes or so on a far too early train Monday morning, about 5 minutes of which I’d actually nodded off! Some vocab difficulties – I vaguely remembered 6D from somewhere, but 28A … Read more “Saturday Times 24939 (27th August)”

Solving time 31:05, so I found it quite tricky. Some very tortuous wordplay in places, and there were a couple which I only worked out while writing up the blog, having failed to unpick them … Read more “Saturday Times 24933 (20th August)”

Solving time 8:11, a rare sub-10 for me, even rarer on a Saturday. For a change I just parsed nearly every clue correctly at first look, and never really slowed down. Thinking back, I could … Read more “Saturday Times 24927 – (13th August)”