Category: Other Crosswords

A surprisingly low entry for this week, considering that everyone who was all-correct had their quickest time for six puzzles since we started. Maybe MONTAGU’S HARRIER on Tuesday had more victims than we know about … Read more “Unofficial Times cryptic RTC No. 8 – results”

This is a weekly unofficial contest based on your times for the Times cryptic crossword from Saturday to Friday. In July 2007, someone commenting on Tony Sever’s Times 2 RTC blog suggested a competition like … Read more “Unofficial Times cryptic RTC No. 8 – your times please”

The key to success this week was avoiding mistakes on 23,691 and 23,694. Only four entrants came through unscathed, with Mark Goodliffe taking a fairly easy win in both contests and becoming the first to … Read more “Unofficial Times cryptic RTC contest No. 7 – results”

This is a weekly unofficial contest based on your times for the Times cryptic crossword from Saturday to Friday. In July 2007, someone commenting on Tony Sever’s Times 2 RTC blog suggested a competition like … Read more “Unofficial Times cryptic RTC No. 7 – your times please”

After the fireworks of last week, we get back to that hard fact about competitive solving: speed is irrelevant if you make mistakes, so accurate solving at say 10 minutes a puzzle will beat just … Read more “Unofficial Times cryptic RTC contest No. 6 – results”

This is a weekly unofficial contest based on your times for the Times cryptic crossword from Saturday to Friday. I’m harbouring hopes for my first win this week after Mark G told me that he’d … Read more “Unofficial Times cryptic RTC No. 6 – your times please”

Mark Goodliffe wins the mini-championship by a country mile this week, but there were fewer mistakes than in the previosu couple of weeks and some close contests, with the margins between Sabine and Tony, and … Read more “Unofficial Times cryptic RTC contest No. 5 – results”

(This is a weekly unofficial contest based on your times for the Times cryptic crossword from Saturday to Friday.) At last I can log a set of all-correct times adding up to less than an … Read more “Unofficial Times cryptic RTC No. 5 – your times please”

Mark Goodliffe returns from holiday in sparkling form to win the championship scoring by over 20 minutes.  Tony Sever grabs second mainly by virtue of a good time for the tough Saturday puzzle.   In the RTC … Read more “Unofficial Times cryptic RTC contest No. 4 – results”

This week’s changes – nothing except a plea to follow the exact formatting – no extra commas, and all the zeroes, with colons between them. The rest of this post is the same as before, … Read more “Unofficial Times cryptic RTC No. 4 – your times please”