Category: Jumbo Cryptic

34:33 on the Club timer; in the preamble to my last Jumbo blog, I described my time of 34:36 as “pretty much bang on my average time for the Jumbo (or at least my usual … Read more “Times Jumbo 1052”

Completely missed this one as it snuck into a Bank holiday paper without much flagging up. Only when my calendar looked wrong this Sunday did I realise what had happened and quickly looked it up … Read more “Jumbo 1051 – the cheeky hidden one on Bank holiday Monday (26th August)”

Solving time: 1:36:10 I went through most of this quite quickly by my own standards, although I slowed down a little towards the end. There were a number of good clues here. 20a stands out … Read more “Times Jumbo 1050 (24 Aug 2013)”

This took me 21 minutes, and I thought it was fairly uncontentious. I suspect that the two answers of Japanese origin (IMARI and UMAMI) may be the least well-known. As ever, * indicates an anagram. … Read more “Times Jumbo 1049”

I don’t recall anything troublesome with this one. It seems to me that there were fewer anagrams and more double definition type clues than normal, but that is all I can add to the explanations … Read more “Jumbo 1048”

34:36 on the Club timer, which which is pretty much bang on my average time for the Jumbo (or at least my usual time for an average Jumbo, if you see what I mean). There … Read more “Times Jumbo 1047”

I reckon this may be my quickest Jumbo to date, as almost all the clues went in on first read or thereabouts. There was nothing bad about the cluing, it just seemed quite clear cut, … Read more “Jumbo 1046 – July 27th”

Solving time: I didn’t time it but it must have been over two hours spread across several sessions. This felt like very tough one to me, but maybe I just wasn’t on the setter’s wavelength. … Read more “Times Jumbo 1045 (20 Jul 2013)”

Many thanks to topicaltim for pointing out that the answer for 10dn in Times Jumbo 1044 is NIGRITUDE (as indicated by the wordplay, an anagram of ‘intrigued’), and not NEGRITUDE, which I and, alas, so … Read more “Times Jumbo 1044 – correction for 10dn”

In contrast to the last Jumbo I blogged on (1039), I thought this one was at the easier end of the scale, taking me 16 minutes.As usual, * indicates an anagram. Across 1 ACROPOLIS – … Read more “Times Jumbo 1044”