Category: Weekend Cryptic

Wow that was tough! I made the mistake of tackling this late at night when I was too tired to concentrate, and it went well over the half-hour. Quite a few went in just on … Read more “Saturday Times 25813 (14th June) – much 11ac here!”

16:30 on the club timer. A gentle, relatively vanilla offering from Dean this week. Nothing wrong with that, of course: his puzzles needn’t be exquisite torture every time, and I had a bit of a … Read more “Sunday Times 4593 by Dean Mayer”

Solving time a fairly brisk 12:47, even more so as it took me a few minutes to get going with it. Some strange goings -on for the Times, more CD’s than usual and the linked … Read more “Saturday Times 25807 (7th June)”

Solving Time: 37:47 I had this blog all written and ready to go several days ago and then completely forgot to post is yesterday, so apologies for that. I need a chance to get back … Read more “Sunday Times 4592 (1 Jun 2014) by Jeff Pearce”

Well, that was a fun puzzle! I have to admit that I didn’t see any of the symmetrical anagrams until well after I’d finished the puzzle and was typing it into the Crossword Club for … Read more “Saturday Times 25801 (31st May) – reassortment remonstrates?”

Shelled out 2.50 to get the Sunday Times in order to do the crossword, and pleasant enough it turned out to be, and quick enough to solve to retain some credibility with my wife and … Read more “ST 4591 – Tim Moorey in Gentle Mode”

No time for this as I fell asleep half-way through and picked it up again later. Probably around the half-hour altogether, as I had got stuck before I dozed off. I felt it had a … Read more “Saturday Times 25795 (24th May)”

This being Sunday, when congregations are notoriously thin, I shall do like the vicar of the parish I grew up in, clamber into the pulpit and deliver a long, rambling address with no particular destination … Read more “Sunday Times Cryptic 4590 by Dean Mayer”

Solving time 14:10, with one error that probably accounted for a third of that! A good puzzle that was mainly pretty easy, but there were a few (in my case 10ac, 19ac, 18dn and 24dn) … Read more “Saturday Times 25789 (17th May)”

This is my first Sunday Times blog standing in for Dave, and as I have had a week to prepare it I have experimented with including clues which I hope will be helpful to those … Read more “Sunday Times 4589 by Jeff Pearce”