Category: Jumbo Cryptic

Hello again. I thought this Jumbo was excellent with enough easier clues to get you going and some cleverer ones to provide the entertainment.

A slightly trickier than usual Jumbo for the Easter Monday holiday with some great clues.

This moderately challenging puzzle detained me for around 50 minutes, but some of the parsings needed a bit more work to figure out.

Hi everyone. This was on the whole a very satisfying solve. Not the fastest (just squeaked in under the hour), but a nice even pace throughout. Lots of highlights. Thank you to the setter.

I was slow to start on this one

Hello again. This Jumbo I thought was about average, but a bit of a potpourri with some neat clues and some not so neat – and some dreadful surfaces in clues like 13, 22, 29, … Read more “Times Cryptic Jumbo 1723 – 29 March 2025”

I don’t remember much about solving this pleasant Jumbo but doing the blog, though, reminded me that it contains a number of witty definitions and a couple of pieces of clever wordplay. Nice one. Thank-you setter.

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.