Category: Jumbo Cryptic

An enjoyable Jumbo solved over two sessions with only a couple of unknown words or meanings.

Definitely on the easier side, this one. I had it all done and dusted inside 30 minutes, very unusual for me even to get it all done in one session, never mind as quickly as … Read more “Times Cryptic Jumbo 1638 – 7 October 2023”

This entertaining Jumbo was cracked in a slow-quick-slow manner finishing in the NW corner.

I’d put this on the harder side of average, taking 50 minutes to sort everything out.  There were a few quiblettes / minor eyebrow raisers but nothing too heinous.

Hello everyone.  Sorry this blog is a little late.

There are some touches here I thought really neat, for example the exchange at meeting in 33d.  Lots of cryptic definitions, a couple of cocktails (an alternative drink is available in 41d) and a party or two to enjoy.  Thanks setter!

Solving time: 40 minutes.

Solved in one session but I had a number of clues scattered around the grid that held out until the very end.

Hello again. I found this Jumbo on the easier side, a steady top-to-bottom solve. No frightened horses .. What did you think? I am short of time this week so for some clues, the explanations … Read more “Times Cryptic Jumbo 1633 – 2 September 2023”

A lovely middle-of-the road Cryptic Jumbo for the Bank Holiday with a good mix of easy and harder clues.

It only took 30 minutes to complete this jumbo, putting it firmly at the easier end of the spectrtum for me at least, but I found it most enjoyable thanks to some excellent clueing.