Category: Jumbo Cryptic

Pretty standard Jumbo with no problematic or contentious clues in my opinion. Probably 2 Down would be my favourite for the long anagram. Across 1 CONSPIRES – CON = against, SPIRES = high church features … Read more “Jumbo 1393”

As I write this summary somewhat belatedly, I seem to remember that I didn’t find it overly hard, but there were a few unknowns I had to trust the wordplay for. No time recorded but  … Read more “Times Cryptic Jumbo No 1392 – 20th July”

Buenos dias amigos. There was some tricky stuff in here, for which I needed aids.  I smashed the hell out of my square bracket keys wiring up the clue explanations so there appear to have … Read more “Times Cryptic Jumbo 1391 – I think I’m Goan bananas”

Hi everyone.  I can’t give you a time for this as I’ve been redonculously busy lately and have had to fit solving into spare moments, often on crowded trains … but I suspect if I … Read more “Times Cryptic Jumbo No 1390 – 6th July. Me Kitty: am snail”

I thought we were in good hands with this Jumbo, which was fairly chewy and really rather enjoyable – thanks setter! 50ac was quite possibly the last one in due to being an unfamiliar expression, … Read more “Times Jumbo 1389: The Man From Forelock”

Apologies for the slight delay on this one – no real excuse! Also apologies for any typos as this was typed up in haste. I don’t recall any particular issues with this one and nothing … Read more “Jumbo 1388”

Today’s Jumbo is a bit harder than usual, I think, with a number of quite chewy bits that got me grinding my teeth. Some devious definitions and tricky wordplay in places held me up at … Read more “Times Cryptic Jumbo No 1387 – 15th June”

Not much to say about this.  It was perfectly acceptable, occasionally witty, fare (albeit with a couple of rather odd CDs), taking around 35 minutes. First in was MISINFORM at 1a, last was STALL. Clues … Read more “Times Cryptic Jumbo 1386 – just how much work is a QM expected to do?”

Hello!  I’m delighted to be joining the TftT blogging team, taking on Mohn2’s Jumbo blogging duties.  I have pretty limited experience of Times puzzles so far, which means I haven’t much to compare this one … Read more “Times Cryptic Jumbo 1385 – 1st June. Times to say Hello”

Apologies for this arriving later than Kitty’s excellent blog for 1385 – this was a Bank Holiday Monday puzzle of course, and so through my timings all out of whack. It was also a deeply … Read more “Times Cryptic Jumbo 1384: Federated States of Mea Culpa”