Author: Penfold

This took a shade under 45 minutes including making sure I understood everything so by my standards at least this was straightforward.  Nothing wrong with that and there were some entertaining clues and neat definitions … Read more “Bank Holiday Jumbo 1326”

This took me 55 minutes all told so that would put it on the slightly tricky side of average and I thought there was some extremely good stuff here, including plenty of very neat wordplay … Read more “Jumbo 1321”

Well this was a nice meaty puzzle for Easter Monday, full of clever stuff.  I didn’t record an exact time but I certainly took over an hour to wrestle this into submission so it was … Read more “Bank Holiday Jumbo 1316”

This was very straightforward indeed, taking about 30 minutes across a couple of sessions.  There do seem to be rather a lot of A+B type clues. My first in was VILLAGE, last was THROUGH TRAIN, … Read more “Times Jumbo 1311”

many, many thanks to Mohn2 for pointing me to the “magic” script and notes on getting it to work in Safari so that I could blog this puzzle in glorious technicolor with 5D Dolby surround … Read more “JUMBO 1306”

I spent over an hour wrestling with this puzzle that appeared during Twixtmas, so I guess it gave me something to do.  My time suggests it was on the trickier side of average and it … Read more “Times Jumbo 1301”

Season’s greetings all.  This puzzle appears to have detained me for a little over 50 minutes so I’d say that put it just on the easy side of average.  In places there seem to be … Read more “JUMBO 1296”

Sorry this blog is so late folks.  I didn’t get a chance to finsih the solve until I was on the train back from the Championships the weekend after publication.  Last weekend was hectic and … Read more “Times Jumbo 1291”

Here we go again.  I’d say we were in straightforward / average territory here as this took me 50 minutes across two sessions. First in was IN ARREARS, last was HAUL OFF. Across 1 RUMBUSTIOUS – … Read more “TIMES JUMBO 1286”

While other Jumbo bloggers are dropping like flies I’m afraid I’m still here. I’m not really sure if this was tricky or I was just taking things at a leisurely pace in the balmy bank … Read more “JUMBO 1281”