Category: Jumbo Cryptic

Jumbo 803 Solving time: 25:37 A quite easy jumbo for me, but with some interesting answers and quite a few clues to talk about, in a set with consistently good surface readings. Across 7 SUB=bus … Read more “Jumbo 803”

Pleasing puzzle, not too difficult I found, solving time, 60 mins * = anagram < = reversed1 COMPTES RENDUS Being familiar with French helped me here, and it was a very good idea to clue … Read more “Times Jumbo 801 (Sat 21 Feb)”

Solving time 37:46, which is about average for me. A milestone number, and published on Valentine’s Day too, but no sign of a theme. How boring! The puzzle turned out to be one of two … Read more “Jumbo 800 (Feb 14th)”

The new Jumbo regime and the first one’s already late! I only found out that I was definitely doing this one last night (Sunday) so apologies to anyone who has been beside themselves with eager … Read more “Jumbo 799 – 7th February 2009”

… Bulawayo? Solving time: a very nominal 60 minutes. I got interrupted for this or for some reason failed to note a time, but it would have been a bit meaningless, as one clue – … Read more “Jumbo 798 – Do you know the way to ….”

Solving time: 25:25, appropriately! One mistake (10dn: ‘acotine’ for ACONITE). The Sunday Times gave us a Jumbo puzzle for Christmas, which contained several seasonal answer words and many clues having Christmas-themed surface readings. Like last … Read more “ST Jumbo 4308 (Sun 21 Dec) – ‘Twas the aconite before Christmas…”

Do we still blog these? The last ones I can find were 784 by 7dpenguin, my own 783, then 7dpenguin’s for 779 with Pete’s blog for 780 underneath it! Come on guys, the Google calendar … Read more “Times Jumbo 788 (Dec 6th)”

It took exactly 26 minutes to solve this one and I thought it was a cracker. This was a Jumbo of 60 great clues where the setter seemed to use every device available with lots … Read more “Jumbo 784 (08/11/08)”

Solving time 25:05, which may be close to my PB for a Jumbo. I don’t get the time to solve them much these days, so normally only bother when it’s my turn to blog (about … Read more “Jumbo 783 (Nov 1st)”

In past weeks I’ve been extolling the virtues of the Saturday Jumbo and recommending people find time to have a go. I hope that this wasn’t the one that you good people decided to start … Read more “Jumbo 779 – one of the worst?”