Category: Jumbo Cryptic

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”

I don’t recall any particular issues apart from 51A which I had to look up. However, overall I think this was a fair challenge. I liked 53A with the French language from a Francophone country … Read more “Jumbo 1313”

I think I have been a bit spoiled by my last two Jumbos to blog, which were quite chewy and satisfying to finish. This was rather more run-of-the-mill, taking me little over half an hour … Read more “Times Cryptic Jumbo No 1312 – 10th March : Kilroy was here!”

This was very straightforward indeed, taking about 30 minutes across a couple of sessions.  There do seem to be rather a lot of A+B type clues. My first in was VILLAGE, last was THROUGH TRAIN, … Read more “Times Jumbo 1311”

A puzzle of perhaps average difficulty, though my mind went a complete blank on 2D and 34D until I had pretty much all the checkers in place. Nothing particularly obscure in the vocab, with words … Read more “Jumbo 1310”

Apologies for the slight delay on this one. Nothing contentious, but some nicely worked clues in my opinion, in particular 8D and 53A. Across 1 LEWES – L(arge), EWES = sheep 4 ACCOMPLICE – ACCOMPLI(sh) … Read more “Jumbo 1308”

Following my previous New Year’s Day Jumbo to blog, which was an absolute cracker, I find I once again have a great crossword to decipher and comment on. It took me about an hour, which … Read more “Times Cryptic Jumbo No 1307 – 3 Feb 18”

many, many thanks to Mohn2 for pointing me to the “magic” script and notes on getting it to work in Safari so that I could blog this puzzle in glorious technicolor with 5D Dolby surround … Read more “JUMBO 1306”

A puzzle that was on the easier side, with perhaps only one unusual word (6D) and even that came with some helpful wordplay. COD to 34D for the nice surface and a favourite expression of … Read more “Jumbo 1305”

I don’t think Times puzzles get more straight-down the line than this one. Technically very good and with some fine surface readings, but without an awful lot to talk about really. My experience has also … Read more “Times Cryptic Jumbo No 1304 (13/1/2018): Straight Sets”