Author: topicaltim

17 minutes, during which I felt a little out of practice, after a Christmas holiday without access to papers or internets. One answer correctly guessed at rather than known, though it was scarcely a leap … Read more “Times 24,426 – Romanes Eunt Domus”

Time of 12 minutes, with the only delay caused by unconsciously putting a rogue S instead of N at the end of 29 across, which held up the SE corner. I’d describe this as straightforward … Read more “Times 24,403”

Time somewhere in the region of 25-30 minutes (forgot to stop timer), which makes it on the hard side for me, though one of those where, on analysis, I can’t really see why: I got … Read more “Times 24,391 –”

Time 17:24, so not headscratchingly tough, but not entirely straightforward either: in particular I noticed that whenever I was stuck for an answer, the checking letters were invariably unhelpful ‘R’s, or ‘E’s or ‘S’s, so … Read more “Times 24,379”

If I had an icon with a dunce’s cap, I’d be using it now. Solving time 11 and a half minutes, but including one guess, which turned out, upon analysis for blog purposes, to be … Read more “Times 24,367 – A Religious Education”

A very unevenly divided 17 minutes today, the first two-thirds falling very quickly indeed, before some more substantial thinking was required, especially in the NE corner, to finish it off. One new word which I … Read more “Times 24,355 – A Puzzle of Two Halves”

I found this to be a very enjoyable 14 minutes, flirting with some quite chestnutty material without being trite, and introducing me to one or two new things for future reference. The fact that I … Read more “Times 24,343 – Sheer Poetry”