Author: Penfold

I found this pretty easy, knocking it off in around 35 minutes with everything parsed.  What about you?

This was certainly on the tougher side, for me at least.  I made reasonable progress on most of it but the last dozen or so clues, mostly in the bottom half of the grid, took my total time past the hour.

Another gentler Jumbo offering this week, keeping me busy for no more than 40 minutes including working out all the parsings. 

This week’s puzzle was largely straightforward I think, taking me comfortably under 45 mins to complete.  Maybe the preponderance of fairly straightforward charades & insertions helped.

I’m calling this another puzzle of average difficulty, but with some clever tricks to keep things interesting

Probably of average difficulty.  On review there’s little in the way of obscure vocabulary and while there are some neat touches none of the wordplay is too complicated.

I needed over an hour to plough through this but looking back on the clues while writing up the blog I’m not sure what held me up.

I thought this was pretty straightforward for a holiday season puzzle, breezing through in one session in under 40 minutes.

I toiled with this for about 75 minutes over three sessions but was watching World Cup football at the same time.  It took a while to get going as none of the early acrosses jumped out at me (although with hindsight some of them are very straightforward).

An unremarkable, but perfectly acceptable, Jumbo.  Nothing too easy, nothing too hard.