Author: vinyl1

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….”

Solving time: 30 minutes Music: Liszt, Operatic Paraphrases, Craig Shepherd This puzzle would have been somewhat easier if the enumerations at the Crossword Club site had been correct. As it was, I was held up … Read more “Times 24647 – You Know My Name (Look Up My Number)!”

Solving time: 21 minutes Music: Grateful Dead, American Beauty As the title indicates, the literals can be made to do most of the work here. I put in three out of the four long ones … Read more “Times 24635 – Taking it literally”

Solving time: 23 minutes Music: Mozart, Piano Concerto K 537, Demus, Collegium Aureum This one was quite easy, and I put in many answers quickly at the beginning. I was prevented from having a really … Read more “Times 24623 – A nice derangement of epitaphs!”

Solving time: 43 minutes Music:Holst, The Planets, Sargent/BBC Symphony This should have been rather easy, but perhaps I was a little tired after three days of golf. There are one or two tricky answers, and … Read more “Times 24611 – Miss Meeber’s Lover”