Category: Jumbo Cryptic

A decent puzzle with a handful of tricky bits ands some pleasing definitions.

Hello everyone. I started slowly with this one, then moved up to a steady medium pace before grinding to a halt on my last couple … if you’re not a plant person you may well have felt the presence of something nasty in the woodshed!

Much of this was easy but I had problem finishing off some stragglers.

Hello again. This Jumbo I found to be a steady solve, though there did seem to be quite a few clues, CDs and DDs where once you have the answer it is obvious, but if not, not..

Mostly very straightforward. That’s no bad thing, though, and the surfaces are generally pretty good and amusing too.

A perfectly acceptable puzzle of middling difficulty.

Hello everybody, and happy Saturday. This was a dnf, but I was amazed that it was only by one. In the end I was quite pleased really with my 76 minutes on the timer and single error. Thanks, setter, for the brain teasing.

I was very slow getting going but after a while it mostly flowed along quite nicely.

Hello again. It seems no time at all since my last blog… it is a consequence of all these dratted public holidays that tend to litter this part of the calendar. No worries though, I enjoyed this clever effort. Fine surfaces, all good stuff.

Another luxury Jumbo for a second week in a row – a class above the ordinary with more richly flavoured wordplay and entertaining surfaces in places, but still not too difficult.