34:32 on the club timer, which suggests this wasn’t too high on the difficulty scale. My suspicion is that it was also quite distinctive, which normally translates to it being one of those “wavelength” puzzles … Read more “Times Jumbo 1017”
Author: topicaltim
Times 25,372
28:08 on the Club timer. Sometimes you find yourself absolutely in tune with a puzzle, and can hardly write the answers in fast enough; other times you realise you’re just not on the setter’s wavelength, … Read more “Times 25,372”
Times Jumbo 1012
49:36 on the club timer – this puzzle is only a fortnight old, but it feels like ancient history after a Christmas break in which there were all sorts of bonus puzzles as well as … Read more “Times Jumbo 1012”
Times 25,360
Updated update. Live Journal has been playing silly buggers all morning, so I have (eventually) published this blog in instalments, with a lot of refreshing and re-trying and re-typing. As a result, it’s a little … Read more “Times 25,360”
Times 25,349
19:01 on the Club timer. My initial reaction: after yesterday’s almost non-existent challenge, something much more substantial and challenging. I shall wait to see if other people had a similar experience of what seems to … Read more “Times 25,349”
Times 25,337
13:58 on the Club timer. Nicely put-together puzzle, where a couple of gaps in my knowledge were filled by wordplay. Across 1 HALT – double def. (I shudder when guards – sorry, train managers – … Read more “Times 25,337”
Times Jumbo 1007
35:30 on the club timer – on the whole a pleasant Jumbo, a steady solve without being a pushover (all things are relative, of course: I am blogging this one after solving today’s puzzle, which … Read more “Times Jumbo 1007”
Times 25,313
28:45 on the Club timer, which I think is indicative of me making heavy weather of this puzzle after a long day, rather than it being absurdly difficult (this, of course, is what happens when … Read more “Times 25,313”
Times 25,307
Morning, all. As you may have noticed, I am not your normally scheduled Jimbo (he’s off on holiday, so we have done some shuffling of Tuesday duties). Thus far I appear to have got the … Read more “Times 25,307”
Times Crossword Competition 2012 – Grand Final, Puzzle no. 3
Andy has aked me to blog one of the final puzzles, and I drew this one, which is described as 201203 in the online version; my purely anecdotal evidence – basically, “what some people said … Read more “Times Crossword Competition 2012 – Grand Final, Puzzle no. 3”