Category: Jumbo Cryptic

This gentle puzzle detained me for no more than 40 minutes including nailing down all the wordplay.

Hi everyone. This was a joint solve for a change, so no time to report. Annoyingly, my COD has to be 6d; lots of other highlights too. Thanks setter!

An interesting Jumbo with some inventive wordplay in places.

Hello again. 1688 was the year of the “Glorious Revolution,” though not so glorious of course if you happened to be catholic. I liked this jumbo, a fraction on the harder side I thought and … Read more “Times Cryptic Jumbo 1688 – 17 August 2024”

A (mostly) jolly good Jumbo with plenty of straightforward clues to get you going, and then a few entertaining trickier bits… and a couple of MERs.

Unless I’m very much mistaken this is my 100th Jumbo blog. I knocked off this enjoyable puzzle comfortably within an hour and rather liked the preponderence of idiomatic phrases…

Hello all. I found this gentle enough for the most part, but fell over at the end. There were a couple of trickier clues, but the one I failed on was for the unfamiliar 18a. No matter: there was plenty to entertain here and I enjoyed the ride. Thanks setter!

I completed this over two sessions and had very few problems.

Hello again. A lot of UNs in this crossword.. unsaintliness, undeserve, unpunctuality.. not really complaining, but not words I would normally use. And as for prewar Polish composers…

Quite a straightforward Jumbo on the whole this time with just a couple of chewy bits and the usual smattering of unknowns.