Category: Jumbo Cryptic

Hello again. This Jumbo I thought was a little harder than average. It has some neat clues, no serious queries, and some shockingly bad surface readings.

A pleasant slightly trickier than average Jumbo cryptic, which you may find vaguely familiar if you are a regular Jumbo solver and your memory of crosswords goes back 18 months!

This was a pretty easy Jumbo, taking me less that 30 minutes to knock off but it was fun and inventive with a couple of delightful anagrams to savour.

Hi everyone. I don’t have a time for this one, but it certainly wasn’t fast. My favourite clue is 17a. Thanks setter!

There were some helpful gimmes but many very tricky clues, answers and wordplay along the way.

Hello again. A nice, straightforward jumbo with some classy surface readings and no queries, once I had 4dn sorted. I don’t record times but I managed it in a single sitting, despite my short attention … Read more “Times Cryptic Jumbo 1738 – 21 June 2025”

Quite a straightforward Jumbo done on the train to our Summer Gathering.

This was mostly straightforward but there were a few unknowns and “barely remembereds” that required a bit of careful piecing together

Hi all. I found this to be that satisfying kind of solve which never feels too easy but yields steadily to thought and emerging checking letters. I completed in a pretty fast time for me, just over 42 minutes. Thanks setter!

After a very sticky start this became a lot easier.