Author: Verlaine

I bustled through this in an efficient 6.5 minutes but this may have been a wavelength thing – all the right possibilities occurred to me at all the right times, but looking at the parsings … Read more “Times 27,509: You May Take Our Lives, But You’ll Never Take Our 3 Down!”

A mostly QC-level Friday puzzle, stuffed with chestnuts and sitters, presumably to give people the necessary confidence to sign up for the Champs next month. Which, to be fair, you all should. Still suffering from … Read more “Times 27,503: Divorced, Beheaded, Died, Divorced, Beheaded, Solved”

So sorry this is so late – I’ve been in the throes of the flu for about a week now, and not at all sure what day it is half the time. Likewise I couldn’t … Read more “Times 27,497: One Flu Over The Cuckoo’s Nest”

Well this was a lot of fun, wasn’t it? Nothing too hard but a lot of devious definitions and general mischief-making to keep us guessing. My LOI was 23ac which I forced myself to think … Read more “Times 27,491: You *Still* Can’t Wash Your Hands In A Hetero”

I completed this comfortably inside of 10 minutes, but it could have been quicker if I hadn’t entered 10ac as “COPULA”, which left the intersecting down clues a lot harder to make head or tail … Read more “Times 27,485: Copularity Pontest”

Greetings from a big house in Northumberland, where I am having to learn how to do crosswords (a) in the morning and (b) the worse for wear by many glasses of wine again. Our group … Read more “TImes 27,479: Holy Island, Batman!”

Despite some in my opinion overly simple clues for the day of the week, I was going to give this puzzle a Friday passing grade based on quite a few fun clues – one man’s … Read more “Times 27,473: Dah It All”