Category: Jumbo Cryptic

Solving time: I would guess between an hour and a half and two hours which is pretty average for me. Hard to say, though, as I did it in fits and starts over the course … Read more “Times Jumbo 985 (23 Jun 2012)”

I solved this in around 20 minutes – nothing too contentious, I thought. There seemed to be an unusually large number of anagrams and “A in B” clues, though. * indicates an anagram. Across 1 … Read more “Times Jumbo 984”

Returning to this puzzle, I find I recorded a solving time of an hour and a quarter. Casting my mind back a couple of weeks, I’m pretty certain this was as a result of solving … Read more “Times Jumbo 982”

The hardest part of this was the missing three clues at the end of the downs in the paper version. I was just about to pop up on Wednesdays blog to ask if anyone could … Read more “Jumbo 981 – the one without some of the clues.”

Solving time: 1hr 40m I didn’t get very far in the first 40 minutes, so I put it down and came back to it the next day. I was clearly in a much better frame … Read more “Times Jumbo 980 (19 May 2012)”

My first posting of this blog, on Saturday 26th, seems to have been locked or corrupted, so with apologies (and thanks to linxit, for alerting me), here it is again. I can’t give a solving … Read more “Times Jumbo 979 – with apologies”

I did not note down my time for this although there was nothing to hold me up particularly. A couple of the wordplays took a little time to parse correctly, but the definition in each … Read more “Jumbo 978”

A solving time of 28 minutes, so not the most difficult puzzle, but a very fine one in my view: lots of clever stuff and pleasing penny-drop moments, including two clues in particular which I … Read more “Times Jumbo 977”

A rather more run of the mill offering than the last gem I got. This one went in quite quickly from memory and in a fairly uniform manner (which for me is NW, NE, SE, … Read more “Jumbo 976”

Solving time: None recorded. I was spending a rare weekend with my family when this came out, so my Dad and I attacked this together and we finished maybe a third of it. I finished … Read more “Times Jumbo 975 (14 Apr 2012) – The Gallic trend continues…”