Author: richardvg

Solving time: 10:33 Quick start with 1A and the two long down ones going in straight away (even if I only worked out why it was SQUARE THE CIRCLE afterwards). Then quite a lot of … Read more “23651 – Look sharp and blurred”

Solving time: 15:27 No real hold-ups here. I put in AEGEAN SEA at 26A, only worrying if it could really be so straightforward. Happily the next clue I looked at was the straightforward anagram at … Read more “Times 23645”

Solving time: 14:58 Pretty straightforward for the most part, if not as easy as yesterday’s. But then I came to a dead halt on 10A and 22A. Perhaps my mental filing system is less good … Read more “Times 23639”

Solving time: 8:40 As Peter says, a relatively easy puzzle. That is a pretty good time for me. I had a good start, getting the first nine clues I looked at (which in this grid … Read more “23633 – 4D and not at all 22D”

Solving time: 15:58 I was a bit alarmed at not solving an across clue until 15A. Things picked up for a while, but then the top right corner held me up. I was determined that … Read more “Times 23627 – V = IR”

Solving time: 25:53 with one wrong A slow time for me. In part, I was not thinking very fast this morning – I was also slow on the Times2 puzzle. But I think this was … Read more “Times 23621 – with little time at the beginning should”

Solving time: 11:02 Good puzzle. Interesting but not too obscure answers, and some enterprising approaches to cluing. And economical clues, with very few linking words. Quite a few literary references, in surfaces or answers. And … Read more “Times 23615 – Wilt thou, Angus, …”

Solving time: 10:10 There are two question marks in the clues, indicating outrageous indicators. Relatively mildly, 5D relies on Chicken Little’s autobiography being called “Little by Little”. Much more strangely, 16A relies on us treating … Read more “Times 23609 – at last”