Category: Jumbo Cryptic

This was one with a few unknown words. All of them were clear enough to get from the wordplay, however. I did like 16A Across 1 BISHOPRIC – BRIC(k) = block, around I = one … Read more “Jumbo 1323”

A fairly gentle Jumbo for the Bank Holiday Monday after the rather trickier Saturday pachyderm. Nothing too difficult or obscure today – I even knew the ice skating twizzle at 1d, but one or two … Read more “Times Cryptic Jumbo No 1322 – 7th May”

This took me 55 minutes all told so that would put it on the slightly tricky side of average and I thought there was some extremely good stuff here, including plenty of very neat wordplay … Read more “Jumbo 1321”

I felt this one was of about average difficulty but above average enjoyment, with a smattering of unknowns and some lesser-spotted wordplay devices (e.g. 19A, 39A, 4D) to keep the solver interested. However a misbiff … Read more “Jumbo 1320”

Oh you guys, I thought I was doing so well for a change – I’d checked the blog calendar and satisfied myself that I was definitely scheduled to blog CJ1320 next Saturday, which I’d solved … Read more “Times Cryptic Jumbo No 1319 (21/4/2018): Better Late Than Clever”

Sorry for the slight delay in posting this – I was going to set it to post automatically early this morning but other tasks intervened. Apologies for any errors due to haste. Nothing to quibble … Read more “Jumbo 1318”

Hello all! I found this on the easy side of middle-of-the-road – mostly pretty straightforward, but with one or two tasty nuggets. I liked the 21-letter anagram at 13a and the novel anagrind at 15a … Read more “Times Cryptic Jumbo No 1317 – 7th April”

A few unknowns and semi-knowns in this one but all with wordplay that helped. FOI AVIATOR, LOI TREMULANT, COD to PAR FOR THE COURSE for the fishy pun. I saw that the blog for 1316 … Read more “Jumbo Cryptic 1315”

Well this was a nice meaty puzzle for Easter Monday, full of clever stuff.  I didn’t record an exact time but I certainly took over an hour to wrestle this into submission so it was … Read more “Bank Holiday Jumbo 1316”

Elegant is the first word that springs to mind to describe this appealing Jumbo, which I rattled through inside of a quarter hour, that is to say about 1.5 Jasons. First-Ones-In 16ac and 17ac in … Read more “Times Cryptic Jumbo No 1314 (24/3/18): You’re The One For Me, Tbilisi”