Author: vinyl1

Solving time: 23 minutes Music: Wagner, Tannhauser Highlights. I am indeed flattered, but it is a little alarming that the setters follow us so closely. I hope they don’t have any tricks up their sleeves … Read more “Times 24766 – The blogger gets his very own clue!”

Solving time: 35 minutes elapsed, about 20 spent in actual solving Music: None, watching golf on TV I was not able to solve continuously, as I watched a couple of shots in the playoff, and … Read more “Times 24754 – So Far, So Good…So What!”

Solving time:40 minutes, but not continuous Music: None, watching golf on TV Another puzzle that was so easy it gave me difficulty. Clues like 1 across should go in instantly, but instead it was almost … Read more “Times 24742 – Something for everyone”

Solving time: 37 minutes Music: Anne Briggs, The Time Has Come Here in Manhattan, we are having a serious blizzard. Right now we are getting about three or four inches of snow an hour, and … Read more “Times 24730 – A snowbound solve”

Solving time: 45 minutes Music: Ravel, Daphnis and Chloe, Monteux/LSO This was a bit on the challenging side, requiring good general knowledge and some tricky clue parsing. There are some easy clues that let you … Read more “Times 24713 – Vocabulary test today!”

Solving time: 45 minutes Music: Schubert, Symphony #9, Boult/London Symphony Another game of two parts. I filled in all but the southwest in fifteen minutes, but the last six really gave me a lot of … Read more “Times 24707 – Quiros was looking for one…..and so was I!”

Solving time: 32 minutes Music: Altan, Local Ground Another game of two halves. Having put in about three quarters of the answers in less than ten minutes, I was a bit chagrined at not being … Read more “Times 24695 – “O O O O that Shakespeherian Rag……”

Solving time: 34 minutes Music: The Owl Service, A Garland of Song I thought this one would be another Monday trot as I filled in half of it in ten minutes, but the remainder proved … Read more “Times 24689 – All you need are wings and a Nagra”

Solving time: 65 minutes Music: Ravel, Daphnis and Chloe, Munch/Boston Symphony, RCA LSC-1893. I hope you all have a couple of OCTs in your book bag as you view the amphorae in the Ashmolean, because … Read more “Times 24671 – Excudebat Vivianus Ridler, architypographus academicus”

Solving time: 39 minutes Music: Prokofiev, Romeo and Juliet Excerpts, Maazel/Cleveland Orchestra. This one should have been easy, but I got stuck for the last 11 minutes on three answers in the NE. If I … Read more “Times 24659 – “The song that Crosby sings….”