Author: piquet

Bushy tailed this morning, I sped through most of this in fifteen minutes, thanks to some write-ins and chunky anagrams. However the last few eluded me for a while longer, ending with 1d and 12a, … Read more “Times 26529 – one poet too many”

Last week I added a note that I wouldn’t be able to blog today’s because I’d be away. But here I am! Somehow, with the technical assistance of another TfTT blogger (let’s call him ‘Snowdon’) … Read more “Times 26523 – nice package”

This morning our Orange Livebox and ADSL were very sluggish to wake up, after last night’s electric storm and promised rain (at last, but not enough), and so was I; it took me forty minutes … Read more “Times 26517 – confessions of a hero-inventor”

No problems with this one today, although I needed all the checkers and the wordplay to get my LOI 25a. Do I hear Jimbo saying ‘vanilla’? A few people of note feature in the answers, … Read more “Times 26511 – it depends who you know”

I don’t know yet whether I woke up thicker than yesterday, or this was hard. I certainly struggled to get going, littering bits of the grid with a few of the easier solutions, instead of … Read more “Times 26505 – After Elizabeth, indeed.”

Tranquillity reigns this morning in the household, having dispatched the little ones on to EasyJet yesterday (including over half an hour queuing in 37 degrees of blistering sun waiting to get inside the overcrowded, cheapskate … Read more “Times 26499 – no wise fish would go anywhere without one…”

A late start this morning, owing to staying up in the wee small hours watching the farce and triumphs of the Olympic cycling. Some velo-chaps after a good liquid lunch must have sat down and … Read more “Times 26493 – Hamish, ye’ll have had yer tea?”

Nothing too obscure or difficult today; if you told me it was Monday I could believe it. I made a few clues seem harder than they really were, completing the right half before the left … Read more “Times 26487 – Liza with an S”

Feeling sluggish this morning, probably from too much sun yesterday golfing in mid 30’s heat, I was not optimistic, putting it off until after my first coffee instead of the solve-with-tea-in-bed routine. However, the little … Read more “Times 26481 – Saucepangram”

Solved in bed with the tea and toast, in 20 minutes or so, more or less anti-clockwise with 3a and the first word of 6d being the last to drop in. Nothing too obscure, except … Read more “Times 26475 – three heads are better than one.”