Author: vinyl1

Solving time: 35 minutes Music: Beethoven, Piano Sonatas, Kempff I admit, I was in a bit of a panic when I couldn’t get anything on my first runthrough. However, that turned out to be because … Read more “Times 24408 – Immediate good fortune for beginners?”

Solving time: 55 minutes Music: Dvorak, Cello Concerto, Starker/Susskind/Philharmonia Orchestra Most of this puzzle was easy. I had gotten all but five answers after 20 minutes, but the remaining five proved very elusive indeed. I … Read more “Times 24396”

Solving time: 24 minutes Music: Sibelius, Symphony #2, SchIppers/NYP This easy puzzle threatened to turn into the blogger’s nightmare, where you simply don’t know the last answers, and the cryptics are not particularly helpful. I … Read more “Times 24384 – How does your garden grow?”

Solving time: 31 minutes Music: Vaughn Williams, Symphony #6, Boult/LPO. When I first looked at this one, I was afraid I was in for a long night, reading through the clues for 10 minutes before … Read more “Times 24372 – The airhead and the Dalmatian”

Solving time: 25 minutes Music: None, I was watching the golf playoff in Las Vegas. Congratulations to the first Scottish winner on the US PGA tour in quite a while – Martin Laird. Not terribly … Read more “Times 24360 – Getting hold of a baronet, I……”

Solving time: 28 minutes Music: Wagner Orchestral Excerpts, Furtwangler This one should have been easy, but I had two wrong entries for a while and mis-wrote a correct entry, causing considerable difficulties in getting the … Read more “Times 24348 – Live from the Kemble, it’s the Sardonic Rumpus!”

Solving time: 55 minutes Music: Chopin Mazurkas, Malcuzynski I had most of this done in 20 minutes, and then ran into a wall. There are some clues that I am not sure are entirely fair, … Read more “Times 24336 – OK, boys, time to go back to school!”

Solving time: 48 minutes Music: None, I’m in a remote part of Connecticut for the Labor Day holiday, no vinyl here. I found this a bit on the hard side, and was distracted by my … Read more “Times 24324: Hunting vocabulary, out in India!”

Solving time: 44 minutes Music: Schubert Piano Pieces, Wilhelm Kempff Well, I’d clamped the record to the turntable, poured myself an iced tea, selected a sharp pencil, and settled down….arrrrgh! This is a toughie! No … Read more “Times 24312 “Not worth a pitcher of warm…er…seepage…..”

Solving time: 32 minutes (one answer corrected while blogging) Music: Wilco, Yankee Hotel Foxtrot This one was a little trickier than the most of the previous Monday puzzles that have fallen my way. Some of … Read more “Times 24300: But is he below the Mendoza Line?”