Category: Jumbo Cryptic

A fairly gentle Jumbo I think…

Hello. It took around an hour for me to reach my last three, but I then had to use aids. No complaints though. Thanks setter.

I completed this in one session.

Hello again. I liked this one. Not too easy, not too hard, with some very neat clues and generally good surfaces. The sort of crossword where if you think a clue is wrong, it is … Read more “Times Cryptic Jumbo 1748 – 25 August 2025”

A great Jumbo for the Bank Holiday weekend with some entertaining clues including a super 21 letter anagram.

Another gentle Jumbo on my watch, done and dusted in about 30 minutes, so probably a good puzzle for less experienced solvers to have a bash at.

Hi all. This was all going wonderfully smoothly … until I slowed to a crawl. I then hit a brick wall which seemed so unyielding I resorted to word searches with a handful to go. Thanks to the setter for the brain exercise. Although I confess I got a teeny bit grumpy at the end, I enjoyed it until then!

I didn’t have too many problems.

Hello again. This Jumbo I thought was a little harder than average. It has some neat clues, no serious queries, and some shockingly bad surface readings.

A pleasant slightly trickier than average Jumbo cryptic, which you may find vaguely familiar if you are a regular Jumbo solver and your memory of crosswords goes back 18 months!