Category: Jumbo Cryptic

A rather middle-of-the-road Jumbo, I thought; many of the clues clues wouldn’t be out of place in a Quick Cryptic, I suspect. But, as usual, there are still a couple of unknowns to expose my … Read more “Times Cryptic Jumbo 1482 – 6th February”

I thought this was a moderately tricky puzzle with some smart misdirection and a few peculiarly British elements that might have overseas solvers chewing their pens. Probably an hour’s worth of solving and parsing including … Read more “Times Cryptic Jumbo 1481 – send in the clouds”

Hello everyone. Very nice, very gentle, very little else to say.  I hope you are feeling chattier than I am, or the poor setter will wonder what a person has to do to get a … Read more “Times Cryptic Jumbo 1480 – 23rd January 2021. 6d in a Teacup”

Unfortunately your regular blogger Simon Hanson is out of action at the moment and so Vinyl asked me to do a little temping.  I’m only an intermittent and rather dilatory Jumbo solver and also a … Read more “Times Cryptic Jumbo 1478 January 9, 2021. Wishing You a Full and Speedy Recovery Simon.”

I know I asked for more tricky ones when I blogged Jumbo 1442… and, lucky me, I got it in spades this time. “A bit of a beast” one or two of my pals have … Read more “Times Cryptic Jumbo 1477 – 2nd January”

This was a leisurely New Year’s Day solve, done in a single session with no hangover whilst simultaneously watching football and joining in family conversations.  Not too easy (possibly because many of the definitions were … Read more “Times Cryptic Jumbo 1476 – Let’s. Play. Crosswords.”

Hi all.  This was the Boxing Day bank holiday (substitute day) puzzle, Boxing Day itself having been a Saturday, with its very own regular Jumbo.  It was a good season at least for Jumbo lovers … Read more “Times Cryptic Jumbo 1475 – 28th December 2020. Polishing off the year”

A fun Jumbo with some cool things going on in the across clues (9ac, 13ac, 53ac, e.g.), though the last half or more of the down clues seem universally very straightforward – I wonder if … Read more “Times Cryptic Jumbo 1474: EEZ’re Good”

A very chucklesome Jumbo indeed with some laugh out loud moments in its quirky idea-pictures. Having just concluded the parsings I remain very tickled by 51dn’s un-I, a hardcore version of the not-we, but I … Read more “Times Cryptic Jumbo 1479: Times-Xwd-Times Vaut Bien Une Mess”

A fairly straightforward solve, with no outstanding clues. If pressed for a favourite I would probably choose 30A. My best wishes to all readers for a healthy and happy 2021! ACROSS1 Rex one with physic … Read more “Jumbo 1473”