Author: plusjeremy

66:52. At 41 minutes I texted vinyl, “Three left.” At 64 minutes I texted him, “Two left.” I’m good at getting stuck at the end of puzzles.

30 minutes, more or less. I solved this puzzle on the regular Times site (not the Crossword Club), so it wouldn’t accept my puzzle as correct. After checking every answer I finally used the Check Puzzle feature and discovered my “mistake”.

All this aside, I thought this was a delightful puzzle. Some fabulous definitions.

53:32. The first word of 1 across was, perhaps, a portent of things to come.

1:15:23, a gargantuan time for a very difficult puzzle, which was nevertheless very enjoyable to solve. Really the time was just about one hour, but the last 15 minutes were spent on a single clue.

Probably this puzzle hails from you-know-who. I’m getting used to his style. I was able to spot his wordplay immediately, nearly every time, but I wasn’t able to find the right synonyms.

25:51. It would appear I might have done well on a hard one. I felt like I caught onto the setter’s tricks fairly early, but the last few were tough-going indeed.

23:06, and early SNITCH statistics suggest this is of average difficulty only. Since I don’t get to do many puzzles these days, I was glad to get through one!

DNF! This was very difficult. I have a mild case of COVID, which did mean I fell asleep for a few minutes while solving, but that’s hardly an excuse. I managed maybe half of the puzzle, but was thoroughly defeated here.

72:28. This one was a toughie, though perhaps in some nooks of the grid more than others.

50:02. Filling in for Will this week, and was looking forward to getting clobbered by the sort of monsters he usually faces.

24:26, with a full six minutes spent on three unches.