Category: Jumbo Cryptic

I can safely say that this was one of the best Jumbos I’ve had the pleasure to blog.

Hi all. This puzzle was published on New Year’s Day and already it feels like the year is far from new. I recorded 77 minutes so must have found it pretty tricky – or been very tired! There’s an obvious COD for me at 34d. Thanks setter!

I was slow to start and very slow to finish off the last few but in between the answers flowed nicely.

Hello again. This Jumbo I thought was a steady solve, nothing too obscure or esoteric. Some neat clues and excellent surface readings. I liked it.

I found this Jumbo mostly quite straightforward but with one or two chewy bits.

A puzzle of around average difficulty (GK notwithstanding), lifted by some lovely anagrams.

Hi everyone. Coming up with the answers took me comfortably inside the hour but I had left myself an unusually large number of empty single squares signalling the need to go back and parse fully. It felt like there was a sense of fun and playfulness here, which I appreciated. Thanks setter!

Easy start then very tough in places

Hello again. This Jumbo was a steady solve. It had some good clues but seemed to have an extraordinary number of clues where alternate letters are removed, and similar. What did you think? Please, do … Read more “Times Cryptic Jumbo 1703 – 23 November 2024”

I enjoyed this well-crafted Jumbo with its good mix of fairly straightforward clues and a few pearls.