Category: Other Crosswords

Solving time: 50:48 I expect there’s a knack to these acrostics, but clearly I haven’t yet got it! Perhaps I’ll do better next time, particularly if I’m more careful about transcribing letters from one grid … Read more “TLS Autumn Acrostic (22 October)”

As usual I managed to get about half of this before resorting to Google etc. I actually left it alone for a couple of weeks, only finishing it last weekend in a gruelling session which … Read more “TLS 851 (8th Oct)”

This was a real struggle – less than half completed when I had to give up and start Googling. Even then it was no picnic, and I had to come back to it a couple … Read more “TLS 843 (6th August)”

No TLS crossword that week – it was replaced by an Acrostic puzzle, something they do about 4 times a year. In this puzzle, the answers to the clues are given coordinates and transferred to … Read more “TLS Summer Acrostic (30th July)”

Solving time: 30:00 (4 wrong) Actually about 7 minutes (4 wrong), with the last 23 minutes spent trying desperately to come up with ANOUILH (doh! how did I miss him?), ANAGOGE (half-familiar once I’d looked … Read more “TLS 840 (9 July)”

I came very close to solving this completely on the train without any help from books or Internet, but fell just 5 short. I fell foul of the almost weekly enumeration error at 8D, which … Read more “TLS 839 – close but no cigar”

I found this very tough, getting maybe half of it before resorting to the books, the half I did get being more guesswork than certain knowledge. Still, I managed to finish it eventually, although I … Read more “TLS 835 (June 4th)”

A rewarmed dish today which I think one current commenter will dimly remember. If printing from Firefox, I recommend choosing Print Preview, setting the Scaling factor to 90%, and then using the Print… button – … Read more “Weekly puzzle 3”

Apologies to non-British solvers for some local culture, especially boradcaster Brian Redhead. Across 1 CUM=with,BRIAN=Redhead perhaps 5 USENET – double def – to troll is to send provocative messages on discussion forums, and to fish … Read more “Weekly puzzle 2 – solution”

I got off to what I thought was an excellent start to this one, getting 6 of the first 8 acrosses at first look. Unfortunately one of them was wrong, and I ground to a … Read more “TLS 831 (May 7th)”