Category: Jumbo Cryptic

Hi everyone, I hope this blog finds you well.  I haven’t managed to so much as look at TfTT for some time, but it’s not because I don’t love you!  I’ve been busy with the … Read more “Times Cryptic Jumbo 1450 – 18th July. From gold stars to planet Earth”

An easy one to blaze straight through, with many of the answers being just what you’d first expect them to be, requiring just a cursory check of the cryptic part to confirm. I mean you … Read more “Times Cryptic Jumbo 1449: A Day At The Races”

This was a bit of a struggle for me – not really on the compiler’s wavelength I think, but nothing unfair. A couple of cleverly constructed clues (probably 8D being my favourite) and a couple … Read more “Jumbo 1448”

I really should write my introduction to my Jumbo blogs while the crossword is fresh in my memory. I see that it took me 44 minutes, which is about average for me, I think. Plenty … Read more “Times Cryptic Jumbo No 1447 – 27th June”

This was mostly fairly gentle I thought, with the odd funny word to keep us on our toes, and only took about 35 minutes.  First in was MOIST and last was DIGESTERS.  Can you remember … Read more “Times Cryptic Jumbo 1446 – kicking against the what?”

Hello and happy Caturday.  Sorry this blog is a little later in the day than usual.  I always have good intentions to do things IN TIME, but invariably end up where such intentions lead … … Read more “Times Cryptic Jumbo 1445 – 13th June. Come hell or high water”

I found this quite challenging and there were some rather brilliant feats of cluing, in particular the breaking down and reconstructions of words such as 33dn and especially my LOI (by a mile) and COD … Read more “Times Cryptic Jumbo 1444: In Which Moustachios Are Twirled”

A fairly normal Jumbo, with one very much unknown solution (4D) that required a dictionary check. As an aside the famous maestro in 17A and the inventor of the pills in 52A were grandson and … Read more “Jumbo 1443”

This Jumbo was a proper workout to keep us busy on a Bank Holiday instead of getting too close to others on the beach. I had a meagre 12 answers after reading through all the … Read more “Times Bank Holiday Cryptic Jumbo 1442 – 25 May”

This was fairly standard Jumbo fare I thought, and there’s nothing wrong with that.  It took me about 50 minutes all told.  First in was AIR RAID and last was the WOOD part of the … Read more “Times Cryptic Jumbo 1441 – not a palindrome of Ipswich”