This is a weekly unofficial contest based on your times for the Times cryptic crossword from Saturday to Friday. Championship puzzles and this contest Contests 13-18 will consist of five puzzles each rather than the … Read more “Unofficial Times cryptic RTC No. 15 – your times please”
Author: petebiddlecombe
2007 Grand Final Unofficial RTC – your times please
This is a one-off unofficial contest based on your times for the three puzzles used in the Grand Final of the 2007 Times Crossword Championship. We’ll just have a ‘mini-championhip’ table for this one, so … Read more “2007 Grand Final Unofficial RTC – your times please”
We’re nearly one / Jumbo 722 delayed
I’m hopeless at remembering birthdays so while I remember, the team version of Times for the Times is one year old next Wednesday. A chance to pause and take stock. I’ll ask the same questions … Read more “We’re nearly one / Jumbo 722 delayed”
Mephisto 2459 – Tim Moorey
Solving time: about 90 mins I guess one of the advantages of egg-head crosswords is that because there are fewer solvers to shock, you can get away with some fairly ripe language. This puzzle takes … Read more “Mephisto 2459 – Tim Moorey”
23,740 – Championship Prelim 1, Puzzle 3
Solving time: 7-9 mins on the day There’s just a hint of a theme here – two symmetrically placed nervy answers at 11 and 21. There are a few snippets of literature and music, but … Read more “23,740 – Championship Prelim 1, Puzzle 3”
2007 Times Championship final puzzles – up at last
The Grand Final puzzles and solutions are now on the Times Online site. You can find them here. Sadly, they’re picture files which print out no more than adequately (and that’s on a fairly new … Read more “2007 Times Championship final puzzles – up at last”
Unofficial Times cryptic RTC No. 14 – your times please
This is a weekly unofficial contest based on your times for the Times cryptic crossword from Saturday to Friday. Championship puzzles and this contest Contests 13-18 will consist of five puzzles each rather than the … Read more “Unofficial Times cryptic RTC No. 14 – your times please”
23734 – Championship prelim 1, puzzle 1
Solving time: about 10 minutes on the day, in two stages This puzzle included one of the clues that made me sweat a bit at Cheltenham. After completing all but one clue in this puzzle, … Read more “23734 – Championship prelim 1, puzzle 1”
Unofficial Times cryptic RTC No. 13 – your times please
This is a weekly unofficial contest based on your times for the Times cryptic crossword from Saturday to Friday. Championship puzzles and this contest Contests 13-18 will consist of five puzzles each rather than the … Read more “Unofficial Times cryptic RTC No. 13 – your times please”
Times Crossword Championship 2007 – results
As promised, here are full results, which were sent to me by the organiser with permission to put them up. Producing this HTML version from a Word doc took me about one hour with pretty … Read more “Times Crossword Championship 2007 – results”