Category: Monthly Club Special

Solving Time: About 40 minutes, quicker than average for me, greatly helped by knowing more than the usual number of words this time. Once again a highly enjoyable solve – I hope the setter enjoys … Read more “Club Monthly 20176 May 2015 – Mediterranean Edition”

Middle of the range, this one, under the hour but not by much. Lots of good stuff as usual, my favourite moment of the month. Unfortunately however I can’t parse 24ac properly, can you? cd … Read more “April 2015 Club Monthly 20175”

I thought this was a little harder than recent months, but managed to plough through it in a little over the hour – in three sittings, which I find helps. Mind you, it is still … Read more “Club Monthly 20174 March 2015”

Well, I didn’t think this was any harder than usual, easier in fact than some since I finished it in less than an hour. Unfortunately on submission I found I had three (!) errors. Two … Read more “Club Monthly 20173 February 2015”

Solving Time: Fairly quick again this month, under the hour. A very nice puzzle as always, and it is a pangram as well, I see. cd = cryptic definition, dd = double definition, rev = … Read more “Club Monthly 20172 January 2015”

Solving Time: About 45 minutes for this (or about three Magoos) which is quicker than average for me. Whether it is easier or not I don’t know, but there were a number of unusual words … Read more “Club Monthly 20171 – December 2014”

Solving Time: 44 minutes, quicker than average for me and should have been quicker still, but for a bit of a bog-down in the SW corner. cd = cryptic definition, dd = double definition, rev … Read more “Club Monthly 20170 November 2014 – On The Easy Side?”

Solving Time: Not sure, can’t get excited about the solving times any more. It took three sessions, so maybe 1 1/4 hours or thereabouts, because after another rapid start – 1ac, 1dn and 11ac all … Read more “Club Monthly 20169 – October 2014”

Well, this took me about the usual (for me) amount of time, ie somewhat in excess of an hour, in two sessions. However I think this one might be a bit easier than some, to … Read more “Club Monthly 20168 – September 2014”

Solving Time – You know, I think I might give up quoting solving times for the Club Monthly. They are not as relevant as they are for the daily cryptic, and lately I have developed … Read more “Club Monthly 20167 – August 2014”