Category: Monthly Club Special

Solving Time: About 1hr 15mins in two sessions. This crossword struck me as unusually good even for a Club Monthly, which is saying something. It is also a pangram. It has a lot of elegant … Read more “Club Monthly 20146 November 2012 – A tour de force”

Solving Time: Not recorded, but this felt about averagely hard. I notice that Jason J (second in the recent Championships) completed it in 21 mins 18secs, whereas the winner took 31mins. Remarkable. The crossword itself … Read more “Club Monthly 20145 October 2012 – Creative Edition”

Solving Time: this took me quite a while, almost two hours in fact, though half of that was spent in mopping up the last half-dozen clues. To my intense irritation, I find I have one … Read more “Club Monthly 20144 September 2012 – Must Try Harder (the blogger, that is)”

Solving Time: About 1hr 10m, though I’m usually in no great hurry. Most annoyingly however, the Crossword Club website claims I have one wrong. I see no typos; maybe doing the blog will uncover the … Read more “Club Monthly 20143 August 2012 – Who can’t spell their own name?”

Solving Time: Something a little over an hour, which is about average for me these days. This crossword is a pangram, and only a v and an x short of being a double pangram. It … Read more “Club Monthly 20,142 July 2012 – Languages of the world”

Solving Time: No time recorded as I did it in several goes; but over an hour, I reckon, though it felt only medium-hard. Rather a medieval theme this month One of the joys of this … Read more “Club Monthly 20141 June 2012 – Wapenshaws, Clanjamfrays and Rondaches”

Solving Time: My clever spreadsheet tells me that this is monthly crossword 20140, the last cryptic I blogged (as I write this, at the beginning of May) was 25140, and this is my blog no…. … Read more “Club Monthly 20140 May 2012 – Language lessons again”

Solving Time: c45 minutes, faster than usual for me When I solved this I thought that the setter was on good form, and that I was too.. But the crossword website tells me I got … Read more “Club Monthly 20138 March 2012 – Morbidezza, anyone?”

Solving Time: I found this relatively straightforward and completed it in two goes totalling about 45 minutes. At the time of writing there are 47 correct answers on the website, which is less than usual, … Read more “Club Monthly 20137 February 2012 – Dab or Soul?”

Solving Time: well, definitely something over an hour; I tend to do a bit and then leave it and come back later, so hard to say for certain, but it felt somewhat longer than usual. … Read more “Club Monthly 20136 January 2012”