Category: Jumbo Cryptic

Compliments of the season to you all!  Turkey sandwich anyone? A fairly gentle Jumbo here from two  weeks ago but with a bit of a sting in the tail. At the end 34A had me … Read more “Times Cryptic Jumbo 1472 – 12th December”

I’m guessing this was of roughly average difficulty.  I was watching football on the telly at the same time as solving so my time of just over an hour isn’t really a reliable guide.  Writing … Read more “Times Cryptic Jumbo 1471 – The one where I can’t think of a clever title”

Hello to you all, on my last Jumbo blog of 2020.  Where has the year gone?  (And if your automatic answer to that is swear-free, you’re a better human than me!)  Anyway, I wish you … Read more “Times Cryptic Jumbo 1470 – 28th November”

This crossword is all about 28dn as far as I’m concerned, much though I like Nicolas Poussin and Tom Stoppard. What a marvellous phrase! I liked 13ac which is another sports clue – maybe I … Read more “Times Cryptic Jumbo 1469: Preferably Beneath A Pile Of Crunching Bodies”

A run of the mill Jumbo, with a couple of words that I have seen in other crosswords, but not elsewhere. I nearly made a silly mistake but a nagging doubt meant that I checked … Read more “Jumbo 1468”

I thought this was about a middle of the road Jumbo – maybe slightly harder given my time was nearer an hour than my usual 45 minutes. Several clues went over my head at the … Read more “Times Cryptic Jumbo 1467 – 7th November”

This started out looking like it was going to be the easiest Jumbo I’d blogged, as I got about half way across the grid top left towards bottom right in a clean sweep.  But there … Read more “Times Cryptic Jumbo 1466 – Noddy goes to Princeton”

Hi everyone, and Happy Caturday. A great crossword to savour, I thought.  It took me something like a couple of hours over a few sessions but yielded to applied thinking, with plenty of lovely aha! … Read more “Times Cryptic Jumbo 1465 – 24th October. Lots of highs”

Old Trafford, Leeds, Bootle, Redditch, Scafell Pike? Stop, you’re making me homesick! A nicely crafted puzzle of only moderate difficulty but great entertainment value. I particularly liked 10dn and 28dn for general ingenuity married to … Read more “Times Cryptic Jumbo 1464: Hit The North”

Very straightforward – I did not time myself but I am sure that it was under 20 minutes. There were very few clues that I needed to go back to. I don’t really have any … Read more “Jumbo 1463”