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Times for The Times: Times and comments on The Times crossword from a team of solvers

Category: Daily Cryptic

Times 29005 – Of loved and elegant friends

Author   ulacaPosted on 26th August 2024 at 8:00 AM10 September 2025Categories Daily Cryptic

Well, this certainly wasn’t difficult, but it had its moments, I think.

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Times 29003

Author   william_j_sPosted on 23rd August 2024 at 7:00 AM10 September 2025Categories Daily Cryptic

Recent trends in the SNITCH filled with me fear that this would be the big beast we’ve all been waiting for, but it turned out to be more of a teddy bear. I enjoyed unravelling it at the seams.

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29002 Well, I felt lucky…

Author   ZabadakPosted on 22nd August 2024 at 6:00 AM10 September 2025Categories Daily Cryptic

  A rather cheerful and friendly number which occupied me for 17.44, with no real hold-ups along the way. Perhaps a feature of this setter’s quirkiness is the rather high number of instances where capitals … Read more “29002 Well, I felt lucky…”

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Times 29001 – shooting fish

Author   piquetPosted on 21st August 2024 at 7:07 AM10 September 2025Categories Daily Cryptic

I had fun with this one, I’m sure the setter did, too.

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Times Cryptic 29000

Author   jackktPosted on 20th August 2024 at 1:30 AM10 September 2025Categories Daily Cryptic

This was a technical DNF as I was unable to solve one clue without resorting to aids..

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Times 28999 – Foodfest!

Author   vinyl1Posted on 19th August 2024 at 4:09 AM10 September 2025Categories Daily Cryptic

Well, I raced through 90% of this puzzle in about 12 minutes, and then became thoroughly stuck.   It can happen.

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Times 28997 – scotch’d the snake, not kill’d it

Author   william_j_sPosted on 16th August 2024 at 7:00 AM10 September 2025Categories Daily Cryptic

A bit of a mixed bag, in my opinion.

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Times 28996 – in which I stink

Author   glhPosted on 15th August 2024 at 2:24 AM10 September 2025Categories Daily Cryptic

Time taken: 10:11 but with a very silly typo in 14 down!  

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Times 28995 – stretching the eyebrows?

Author   piquetPosted on 14th August 2024 at 7:00 AM10 September 2025Categories Daily Cryptic

A pleasant enough puzzle with nothing to cause undue delay, but…

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Times Cryptic 28994

Author   jackktPosted on 13th August 2024 at 1:15 AM10 September 2025Categories Daily Cryptic

An interesting puzzle with a few tricky answers but all of them deducible from wordplay.

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