Category: Jumbo Cryptic

A fairly standard Jumbo, with nothing too much of concern. Across 1 TIMES NEW ROMAN – TIMES = by, NEW = anagram of ROMAN = norma 8 SUGARPLUM – SUP = dine, around GAR = … Read more “Jumbo 1383”

Today’s Jumbo continues the series of fairly easy puzzles, although there is the usual smattering of less familiar words. In all it took me about 32 1/2 minutes. Having finished describing the parsings, I can’t … Read more “Times Cryptic Jumbo No 1382 – 18th May”

Crikey, these come around quickly when you have a couple of bank holidays in quick succession so I’m afraid you’ve got me again. So here we have another puzzle with a bit of a popular … Read more “Times Cryptic Jumbo 1381 – put your records on”

I found this one marginally easier than average though it did contain a couple of words seldom seen in Crosswordland. FOI 1A, LOI 13A. Finally a job advert – if anyone would be interested in … Read more “Jumbo 1380”

This very much had the air of a Jumbo-fied QC. I took my first 3 minutes printing it out for a friend and still almost got it done inside a quarter hour. Apart from a … Read more “Times Jumbo 1379: QJ”

A lot of longer solutions in this one in a grid of 26 Across clues and 28 Down which I think is the lowest number of clues I have had to type up. There were … Read more “Jumbo 1378”

I was wondering if we might get a more testing puzzle for the Bank Holiday, but no. This was rather a middle-of-the-road Jumbo and I completed it in about 45 minutes. I don’t think there … Read more “Times Cryptic Jumbo No 1377 – 22nd April”

1376 was the Saturday puzzle from that glorious Easter weekend.  Thankfully it was very much on the gentler side so we were all able to knock it off pretty quickly and get back into the garden, weren’t … Read more “Times Cryptic Jumbo 1376 – the one where it isn’t Ross from Friends”

I didn’t find this one particularly difficult though I did spend a while trying to parse my LOI 52A, which seemed to have come from a different puzzle entirely. I enjoyed some of the definitions, … Read more “Jumbo 1375”

A well above average Jumbo, I felt, with the usual preponderance of straight-down-the-line clues pleasingly peppered on this occasion with a nutritious selection of &lits, reverse cryptics and just plain quirky meta-offerings. Many things in … Read more “Times Jumbo 1374: Satan Oscillate My Metallic Sonatas?”