Author: sabine_tk

Solving time: Something like 35 minutes; I completely forgot to stop the clock after grasping what was going on. This was no ordinary puzzle; after 25 minutes I was still totally baffled by apparently senseless … Read more “Times Crossword 24334 – A Reticulated Network”

Solving time: 14.14 I thought this was a good puzzle, with some very neat and clever clueing. I was slow to see the two long across answers at 10 and 25, which probably added a … Read more “Times Crossword 24322”

Solving time: 11.48 This puzzle seemed to have a very high proportion of proper nouns among the answers. I hesitated for a quite a while at the end before writing in 5A and 5D, because … Read more “Times Crossword 24310”

Solving time: 11.29. I had this whole thing done in about 6 minutes apart from a cluster of 5 clues in the SW corner (22A, 25A, 15D, 21D and 22D), and thought I was heading … Read more “Times Crossword 24298”

Solving time: 14.50. I thought this was a good mixture of tricky clues and more straightforward ones. Had some problems with the wordplay in a few places but the definition and/or crossing letters were usually … Read more “Times Crossword 24286”

Solving time: 13.20 I probably cost myself 3 or 4 minutes by initially writing in a wrong answer at 1 ac, which meant I was staring in puzzlement at the NW corner long after the … Read more “Times Crossword 24274”

Solving time: 9.18 Nothing too difficult in this puzzle, which has several helpful features such as the two four word answers at 12 and 20 ac, both of which are common phrases, and the long … Read more “Times Crossword 24262”

Solving time: 8.07 This was a straightforward and relatively easy end to the week and I expect there will be some fast times. There was quite a lot of wordplay of the “remove a letter … Read more “Times Crossword 24250”

Solving time: 14.30 A medium difficulty puzzle, for me at any rate. I got off to a racing start when 1a went in at a glance – always encouraging – but this soon slowed to … Read more “Times Crossword 24238”

Solving time: 12.14 One of those worrying puzzles where I was left at the end with three completely unconnected blanks – 19A, 6D and the 18D/23A duo in the SE corner. I’m still a bit … Read more “Times Crossword 24226”