Author: william_j_s

Competition-level stuff. I hope you solved more of it than I did.

It was such a pity not to finish this fabulous puzzle correctly because I felt outsmarted from the start but chipped away and still fell short.

I’d say this is the ‘perfect Friday crossword’ level.

I found most of this pretty hard.

A charming and relatively straightforward end to a fairly easy week.

42:10 I had to check I was doing the right puzzle to begin with: it’s been that long since 1ac went straight in on a Friday. The clues seemed to get more and more difficult … Read more “Times 29231”

46:29 with quite few guesses, one of which I’m still to parse…

Brutish, but what a cracker! Lovely misleading surfaces and well-hidden elements, certainly a challenge, and a bit to learn along the way.

Quite a few references to ‘surrender’ today, so I take that as an offer of a truce. It was certainly more like a gentlemanly duel than all out war. 

This might be the hardest crossword I have ever attempted to blog.