Category: Jumbo Cryptic

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!

Apologies to all for the late posting of this.

“Further” fun for big grid fans

A middle-of-the-road Jumbo with the usual smattering of harder clues and less familiar words among the easier clues

I found this relatively gentle, with not too much obscurity or convoluted wordplay