39:48 on the club timer – as this appears to be precisely 7 seconds more than the last Jumbo I blogged, I can only conclude it was of a similar degree of difficulty, which would … Read more “Times Jumbo 1002”
Author: topicaltim
Times 25,301
13:53 on the Club timer for a puzzle which was somewhere down the middle in terms of difficulty. A couple of words which are a bit off the beaten track, but which a search reveals … Read more “Times 25,301”
Times 25,289
9:59 on the Club timer, for a nice, middlingly difficult puzzle, which I solved pretty steadily after a slowish start. I don’t think there was anything too obscure, but as ever, we shall soon see … Read more “Times 25,289”
Times 25,277
17:35 on the Club timer, but I suspect it wasn’t as difficult as that suggests. I feel very out of practice after a few weeks away from the daily cryptic, having been a) away on … Read more “Times 25,277”
Times Jumbo 997
39:41 on the club timer – which confirms I found this quite a tricky one – with one error, in which I don’t think I was alone, to judge from comments on the Club forum. … Read more “Times Jumbo 997”
Times 25,253
A not entirely straightforward 15:19, with some pretty obvious clues interspersed with some less obvious, nay downright cunning ones. Not to mention a couple of quite obscure bits of knowledge which, I am ready to … Read more “Times 25,253”
Times Jumbo 992
28:35 on the Club timer, which suggests this didn’t give much trouble (just lately I’ve been noticing a trend for the standard Saturday to be tough and the Jumbo much less so, to the point … Read more “Times Jumbo 992”
Times 25,241
A rather testing 19:15, lots of it spent in the SE corner, which remained resolutely blank for ages, after I’d got 1 and 6 across at first sight and made pretty quick progress on the … Read more “Times 25,241”
Times 25,229
Stopped the clock at 9:00 dead. Mostly straightforward, with any trickiness coming from wordplay rather than obscure vocabulary. The two full-length down answers at 2 and 7 were obviously very helpful, and I expect I … Read more “Times 25,229”
Times Jumbo 987
42 minutes (with a typo which I didn’t pick up before submission), though it felt like a lot longer. That feeling reinforces what I was thinking while solving, which was that I wasn’t really on … Read more “Times Jumbo 987”