Category: Jumbo Cryptic

This was the one published on the first May Bank Holiday Nothing too controversial, just a couple clues with tricky wordplay to sort out Across 1 UP FOR GRABS – UP FOR = available and … Read more “Jumbo 1263”

Greetings, earthlings, and welcome to another Jumbo Blog. Here we have yet another puzzle of average difficulty IMHO, with just a smattering of unknowns that (or is it which?) precipitated a flurry of t’internet research. … Read more “Times Jumbo 1261”

I found this one a bit harder than usual, spending an age in the NW quadrant where 1A just wouldn’t come to me at all, as I assumed for a long time that delicate was … Read more “Easter Monday Bank Holiday Jumbo Cryptic 1260”

I got 14ac and 57ac early on when solving this and thought there might be a wine theme, but – unless you also count 47dn – it looks as though it was just coincidence. 38dn … Read more “Times Jumbo 1259”

I completed this correctly, but there are a couple of clues where I am unsure of the correct interpretation (6D and 12D) although I can make some sort of sense of them There are also … Read more “Jumbo 1258”

What ho! Sorry this is another late one.  I was away and then busy and whenever I have some free time to go on the computer my 16-year old always seems to be doing GCSE … Read more “Times Jumbo 1256”

Took me just under the hour, so I’d place this one slightly on the harder side of average.  Didn’t know the Kipling work at 3dn, which gave me the pleasure of working a 22-letter anagram … Read more “Jumbo 1257 April1, 2017 – a classical clanger?”

A puzzle of about average difficulty, with nothing particularly obscure for seasoned solvers, though I felt there were rather more unobvious definitions and deceptive surfaces than usually crop up in the Jumbo, which made the … Read more “Jumbo 1255”

Another (probably) not-exceptionally-difficult Jumbo. As always, * indicates an anagram. Across 1 REFECTORY – alternate letters of bEeF, in RECTORY 6 SHOW-OFF – SHOW, + OF F 10 ORIEL – OR + IE + L … Read more “Times Jumbo 1254”

Sorry for the late posting, the dog ate my homework. This puzzle took me roughly an hour, which would suggest average difficulty, but I had a very undignified three errors.  Three!  One was just a … Read more “Jumbo 1252 February 25, 2017”