Category: Jumbo Cryptic

Fairly straightforward with a few unfamiliar words to check in the dictionary before finally submitting. All were fairly clued and with checking letters there was little doubt. Across 1 TWELVEMONTH – (LOVE WENT)*, around M(aiden), … Read more “Jumbo 1223”

I’d say this was the best Jumbo I’ve blogged so far, full of wit, imagination, originality and really good cluing so thanks to the setter for a first class example of the compiler’s art.

Morning all, I wrote this up a couple of weeks ago and I apologise for not remembering too much about it.  The clock says I did it in just over 47 minutes, a bit more … Read more “Jumbo 1222 August 20, 2016 – YMMV”

I found this one a little bit harder than average at the time, though looking over the vocab there was nothing completely unknown. I much prefer difficulty caused by wordplay rather than heaps of obscurities, … Read more “Jumbo 1220”

Not too challenging, I thought, though it introduced me to a new word (the ancient people at 54ac) and a phrase (51ac) that I’d never encountered before with that particular meaning. As always, * indicates … Read more “Times Jumbo 1219”

Typed up quickly this morning as last week was busy and I forgot my responsibility. I don’t remember anything holding me up on this one. Apologies for any typos – I’m not the best at … Read more “Jumbo 1218”

This one took me about 36 minutes, which is fast for me, Jumbo-wise.  To be fair, the solving conditions were ideal, a rainy Saturday arvo with the wife away in Melbourne for the weekend.  Not … Read more “Jumbo 1217 July 16, 2016 – Ideal conditions”

I haven’t got much to say about this puzzle so let’s get straight on with it.  I solved it in 4 bursts of about 10 minutes each. First in was SORBET, last in ATHENIANS. Across … Read more “TIMES JUMBO 1216”

Here’s the belated blog on Times Jumbo 1214 (published 25 June). I thought this was much easier than the last one I posted about (Jumbo 1209)! As always, * indicates an anagram. Across 1 COUNTERACTIVE … Read more “Times Jumbo 1214”

Although this puzzle appeared in the Times on May 28, the closing date was misprinted as Saturday 9 July (last weekend), so that’s when the solution was provided. Apologies for not posting this sooner. I’ll … Read more “Times Jumbo 1209 – was published May 28”