Category: Weekend Cryptic

It’s ok, I haven’t forgotten about it today. I had it half-finished about 8:00 this morning when I got an urgent message from work asking for help, and then I had to go out at … Read more “Saturday Times 26574 – please be patient!”

This took me a little over half an hour, which counts as hard for me. I don’t seem to have been alone in finding it tricky, although Magoo and Jason both polished it off in … Read more “Sunday Times 4720 by David McLean”

I forgot to note down my solving time for this, but it was probably around 14-15 mins. The setter must be a bit of a film buff, as we can see two Schwarzenegger films (True … Read more “Saturday Times 26568 (12th Nov)”

Yet another super puzzle from Dean that I happily meandered my way through at odd intervals during the course of a delightfully hedonistic Sunday. As usual, much to enjoy by way of tight cluing, wit … Read more “Sunday Times 4719 by Dean Mayer”

Solving time 11:04, which felt a bit sluggish at the time, and proved so when I saw the online stats – Jason was under 5 min, Verlaine just a fraction over 6 and 100th place … Read more “Saturday Times 26562 (5th Nov) – not many fireworks here though”

Well I did this in exactly 6 minutes, which didn’t put me anywhere near the top of the leaderboard, so I think it would be fair to say that this puzzle was easy. I don’t … Read more “Sunday Times 4718 by Jeff Pearce”

This one occupied me for 62 minutes. It was a steady solve with only one unknown word, yet another plant to add to my vocabulary, but it was gettable from wordplay. As I’m standing in … Read more “Saturday Times 26556 (October 29, 2016)”

Sorry, something’s come up and I won’t be able to post a blog this weekend. Not on time anyway, may get to it Sunday evening at the earliest. If someone can help out I’ll be … Read more “Saturday Times 26556 (placeholder)”

Thoroughly enjoyed this offering from Harry, which I tackled in a couple of sittings of about an hour each – which by my standards is not too bad for this particular setter, who I generally … Read more “Sunday Times 4717 by David McLean”

Solving time 14:25. I vaguely remember struggling over some of the parsing while solving but I remembered it all OK this morning. I’ve sort of run out of time now though so here it is … Read more “Saturday Times 26550 (22nd Oct)”