Category: Monthly Club Special

Solving Time: About 40 minutes in only one session, which is unusually fast for me. I infer that this is an easier example than most in recent months. I notice that  at the time of … Read more “Club Monthly 20181 October 2015 – moscatel, malaga, zibibbo, zihibbo”

First of all many thanks to Dorset Jimbo, for kindly standing in for me for the July and August crosswords. Unfortunately I can’t look at his blogs, until I have cleared away my crossword backlog … Read more “Club Monthly 20180 September 2015”

About 40 minutes in one session, so unusually quick for me and thus another one on the easier side. I felt helped by having heard of quite a lot of the required words, or at … Read more “Club Monthly 20177 June 2015 – Pyrenees Edition”

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?”