Author: ulaca

Not my favourite type of crossword this, where an essentially straightforward puzzle has one clue which is of a totally different character to all the others.

Just under 16 minutes for this, so not much to scare the horses.

This was super easy.

Barring one or two pieces of tricky vocabulary, this is all very straightforward. So much so, that I was disappointed with my time of 16 minutes. Not often will you hear me say that. I … Read more “Times 28621”

Lots of deletion clues detract a bit from the overall effect, perhaps, but all in all fine Thunderer fare.

Nice to see a Classical clue to slow down the Bletchley Parkers. More of the same, please, setter! 

Around 20 minutes for all bar 15 down, where I had to look up the solution, despite having the first five letters

This is rather harder than your average Monday, my time of 31:50, however, being inflated by some careless biffing at 1 down.

An easy one today – even by Monday standards.

There were certainly some tricky pieces of vocab here, but that apart it was pretty much a glorified quickie.