Category: Weekend Cryptic

Solving time 12:26 for a fairly straightforward Saturday puzzle. Mark Goodliffe certainly found it so, clocking 4:57 on the Club timer, although he still only managed 36th place behind the neutrinos (club messageboard slang for … Read more “Saturday Times 25406 (23rd Feb)”

Solving time: 25:31 – with one mistake. On the whole I found this quite straightforward. I’m not sure if it was easy, or if I just got on to the setter’s wavelength quickly. Some of … Read more “Sunday Times 4525 (17 Feb 2013) by Tim Moorey”

16:53 to solve, fairly straightforward apart from the one tricky bit of wordplay that I had to come back to. A few bits of British geography might have made it harder for overseas solvers though. … Read more “Saturday Times 25400 (16th Feb)”

Solving time: 53:58 A typically clever offering from Dean this week. He rarely disappoints when it’s his turn. There were a couple of good &lits at 2 & 11, with 11 being so good that … Read more “Sunday Times 4524 (10 Feb 2013) by Dean Mayer”

Solving time not noted, think it was about 20 minutes. After a hectic week I didn’t get to this until Wednesday or Thursday on the train, and I remember struggling a bit on the top … Read more “Saturday Times 25394 (9th Feb)”

Solving time: 44:08 This wasn’t particularly to my taste, I’m afraid. It wasn’t too difficult, although there were a few where I struggled to understand the wordplay until post-solve. There were a few where I … Read more “Sunday Times 4523 (3 Feb 2013) by Jeff Pearce”

Solving time: 42:25 On the whole, I found this a pretty good puzzle, with some very good clues contained within. There were a few I wasn’t keen on, but they’re all perfectly sound, so I … Read more “Sunday Times 4522 (27 Jan 2013) by Tim Moorey”

No time for this one as I solved it on the train but my phone was dead so I had no stopwatch. Around the 20-minute mark though. Another very good puzzle, COD for me 10ac. … Read more “Saturday Times 25382 (26th Jan)”

Solving time: About an hour and a half Another wonderful offering from Dean – full of deviousness. 1a, 4d, 15d and 26a were probably the pick of the bunch for me, but 12d is the … Read more “Sunday Times 4521 (20 Jan 2013) by Dean Mayer”

Solving time 13:41, so on the easy side for a Saturday. Some good clues though, my favourites being 1dn and 23ac, and for once a cryptic definition also deserves a mention at 25ac. Across 1 … Read more “Saturday Times 25376 (19th Jan)”