Solving time: 30 minutes (3 wrong) If only I’d watched Walt Disney’s One Hundred and One Dalmatians I’d probably have got PERDITA, and that would have been enough to give me SPOT (hah! another Nina?) … Read more “TLS 842 (23 July)”
Author: tony_sever
TLS 840 (9 July)
Solving time: 30:00 (4 wrong) Actually about 7 minutes (4 wrong), with the last 23 minutes spent trying desperately to come up with ANOUILH (doh! how did I miss him?), ANAGOGE (half-familiar once I’d looked … Read more “TLS 840 (9 July)”
TLS 838 (25 June)
Solving time: 26:58 (1 wrong) I started reasonably well, but as usual slowed dramatically and finished up needing to make a number of guesses, one of which (KATY PARR instead of KATY CARR) turned out … Read more “TLS 838 (25 June)”
TLS 836 (11 June)
Solving time: 30:00 I used the whole 30 minutes for this puzzle because there were a number of answers I wasn’t completely sure about, but in the end all my first guesses turned out to … Read more “TLS 836 (11 June)”
TLS 834 (28 May)
Solving time: 22:31 – all correct if the answer to 17A is UKULELE and the answer to 18D is LEGRENZI; but maybe 1 or 2 wrong if UKALELE is expected at 17A (see below) and/or … Read more “TLS 834 (28 May)”
TLS 832 (14 May)
Solving time: 18:42 (1 wrong) I made a slowish start, but then picked up speed a little and had all but four answers filled in by around 10 minutes – and one of those (FEMME) … Read more “TLS 832 (14 May)”
TLS 830 (30 April)
Solving time: 24:43 (1 wrong) Once again I was tantalisingly close to an all-correct solution, but failed at the tricky 23A. Since I knew the word ASTORETH but not ASTEROTH, I opted for the former … Read more “TLS 830 (30 April)”
TLS 828 (9 April) – plus a bonus RBQ-type question
Solving time: 30:00 (2 wrong) For once I didn’t make any daft mistakes, my two wrong answers being down to ignorance in the case of 25D (DEAN) and, arguably, unfairness on the part of the … Read more “TLS 828 (9 April) – plus a bonus RBQ-type question”
TLS Puzzle No. 826
Solving time: 30:00 (5 unsolved) I plodded my way through this one until (after about 20 minutes) I was left with five clues unsolved in the SE corner, and (not for the first time) made … Read more “TLS Puzzle No. 826”
TLS Puzzle No. 824 (with an unresolved clue at 7D)
Solving time: 30 minutes (5 unsolved) I thought this was going to be another success story. I solved 15 clues on my first run-through (and correctly guessed another, but didn’t dare put it in), and … Read more “TLS Puzzle No. 824 (with an unresolved clue at 7D)”