Category: Jumbo Cryptic

Quite a tricky puzzle.

Our New Year Day’s Jumbo gives us glamorous women and not so glamorous outfits.

A first Jumbo from one of our newer setters, and it’s a good one with lots of witty clues.

Just in case you’re confused about which puzzle this is, given the plethora of jumbi we had over the festive period, this is the one from Boxing Day.  I found it tricky”.

Happy New Year to you all!

This was certainly on the tricky side. I don’t have a proper time as my “solvemate” and I did it together, but it was a good puzzle for sharing, with plenty of cunning tricks and misdirection. Thanks setter.

I managed to solve this one readily enough, spread out over several sessions.   The second long answer is not used in the USA, and I had to get a number of crossers before concluding what the answer must be.

Straightforward but enjoyable puzzle, with one guessable scientific term for those of an arty bent; and a dish made from the underrated buckwheat.

This was an entertaining  jumbo at the easier end of the spectrum.

I found this very much towards the gentler end of the difficulty spectrum

Hello everyone. I try to delay as little as possible between solving and writing up, but failed to blog promptly this time.  Now all I have is a note of my time (59 minutes) and the vaguest of recollections. My time suggests a medium level of difficulty, and the wordplay must have seen me through the couple of gaps in my knowledge, otherwise I’d have noted it. So all good – thanks setter!