Category: Weekend Cryptic

Solving time: 15:55 – looking at a sub-10 for a while, but I ran out of steam in the bottom half and limped home a bit. Sorry this is a bit brief, but I’m in … Read more “Saturday Times 25460 (27th April)”

This one went in fairly quickly as there seemed to be a lot of very obvious phrasal answers that came immediately from one word in the clue plus the enumeration – these included 15a, 25a, … Read more “Jumbo 1031 – Saturday 13th April – A nice puzzle for beginners ?”

Solving time: 39:02 I thought this was an excellent offering from Tim this week – one of his best. Not too tricky, but with some excellent wordplay in a few places. I particularly liked the … Read more “Sunday Times 4534 (21 Apr 2013) by Tim Moorey”

Thanks to Sarah and Marcos for stepping in for me for a couple of weeks. I’ve was too busy to even solve any puzzles then, let alone blog them, but I’ve just about caught up … Read more “Saturday Times 25454 (20th April)”

Solving time: About 45 minutes offline. It’s another supremely witty offering from Dean, and a lot of fun to solve. So many good clues that it’s very difficult to pick a COD. Actually, that’s not … Read more “Sunday Times 4533 (14 Apr 2013) by Dean Mayer”

Decent Saturday offering, no gimmes, and a steady solve with some head scratching along the way. Technically this was a DNF for me as after about 25 minutes (of which 5 were spent staring at … Read more “Daily 25448 – Saturday 13th – more vocab deficiency issues – first Nudnik, now Gneiss ….”

Solving time: 41:33 A straightforward, for the most part offering this week. Everything seemed to be proper and above board. There seemed several particularly easy ones, especially the four across clues in the centre of … Read more “Sunday Times 4532 (7 Apr 2013) by Jeff Pearce”

I’m standing in for linxit this week. It’s my first call off the subs’ bench in a very long time. I imagine I will have slightly less impact than Lionel Messi did in midweek. You’ll … Read more “Saturday Times 25,442 (6th April 2013)”

Solving time: About 30 minutes offline. For the most part, I found this one pretty easy. Probably three-quarters went in in about 15 minutes, but then I came unstuck over half a dozen or so … Read more “Sunday Times 4531 (31 Mar 2013) by Tim Moorey – Ecclesiastical incumbents”

Sorry for the delay in getting this posted, just didn’t have time yesterday. Anyway, great puzzle and quite tricky, around 25 minutes to solve. It looked like it was going to be a pangram as … Read more “Saturday Times 25436 (30th March)”