Category: Weekend Cryptic

10 minutes on the nose, but with one ‘error’. I whizzed through most of this, but was slowed down a little by a couple of clues. The first was 9ac, where I could see what … Read more “Sunday Times 4676 by Jeff Pearce – no bawl”

It was with a mixture of trepidation and excitement that I strode to the crease last Sunday morning to take guard against a new bowler of whom I knew nothing (even his name had been … Read more “Sunday Times 4675 by David McLean”

First Saturday puzzle of the new year, and it still has a couple of seasonal answers, as if it didn’t quite make the cut for Christmas week itself! A fine puzzle nevertheless. 14:44 here, with … Read more “Saturday Times 26298 (2nd Jan)”

Well, my friends, don’t know about you but I found this quite a challenge! I was expecting the usual 15×15 Sunday grid, when suddenly a 23×23 popped up (and just to add to the terror, … Read more “Sunday Times Christmas Crossword by Dean Mayer (4673)”

26:12. I found this decidedly challenging, but also very enjoyable. As I and others have commented before, Jeff Pearce really seems to have upped his game in recent months. Not all of this seems to … Read more “Sunday Times 4674 by Jeff Pearce – Hertz So Good”

I tried solving this at my desk at work last Tuesday, but it ended up being a lot busier than I thought it would so I didn’t get a good run at it at all, … Read more “Saturday Times 26292 (26th Dec)”

As some of you will have already seen, I posted the blog for Dean’s “Christmas Special” early this morning (thanks for the comments to date) without realising it is still under embargo. Apologies for this … Read more “Sunday Times Christmas Crossword by Dean Mayer – Prematurely Posted!”

Merry Christmas everybody. Unfortunately my Christmas plans mean I don’t have time today to complete a blog, so this will appear either later tonight or tomorrow morning. I’ve got a lot of catching up to … Read more “Saturday Times 26286 (19th Dec) – better late than never!”

This is Tim Moorey’s last crossword for the Sunday Times, so it is rather fitting that I fell hook, line and sinker for the trap he set the unwary solver, allowing Tim to 5dn as … Read more “Sunday Times 4672 by Tim Moorey – so long and thanks for all the 14ac”

A fairly sluggish 16:09 for this, which puts me out of the top 100 on the leaderboard (although as more than half of them are neutrinos that doesn’t mean a lot!) I remember putting TABLE … Read more “Saturday Times 26280 (12th Dec)”