Category: Weekend Cryptic

Solving time: About 45 minutes – An excellent puzzle this week after a couple of fairly humdrum ones. Lots of entertaining clues this week. LOLITA gets my COD for its use of text speak! 18 … Read more “Sunday Times 4461 (27 Nov 2011) – OMG – ROFL :)”

Sick dog, sick wife, no time to post this morning. Will try later once I’ve had them put down. OK, back from the knacker’s yard with an extra fiver in my pocket to show for … Read more “Saturday Times 25017 (26th Nov)”

Solving time: 30:09 Some nicely worded definitions this week. I liked ‘bloomers on line’ for LEI. Otherwise, not much to say, except that this felt like a very average puzzle for the ST. cd = … Read more “Sunday Times 4460 (20 Nov 2011)”

Solving time – off the scale! Wow, how hard was this one?! I haven’t got an accurate time, but it must have been nearly an hour. Setter, you’re a nasty piece o’ work but your … Read more “Saturday Times 25011 (Nov 19) – not easy!”

Solving time: 32:36 – a similar time to last week, but I didn’t feel as happy with this one. I feel I made heavier weather of what should have been a more straightforward puzzle. cd … Read more “Sunday Times 4459 (13 Nov 2011)”

Solving time 18:25. I had a bit of a hold-up due to a wrong answer in the NW corner, but otherwise this was fairly straightforward, with no science or literature and only one obscure word. … Read more “Saturday Times 25005 (Nov 12)”

Solving time: 32:03 – a time I was quite pleased with, as there are a few tricky clues here. An enjoyable crossword with some inventive and well-crafted clues. A couple of words I didn’t know … Read more “Sunday Times 4458 (6 Nov 2011)”

Solving time 13:44. I don’t know why, but I was expecting a bit of a corker for the last puzzle in the 24000’s, but this was just a standard workaday offering. Unusually, all single-word answers, … Read more “Saturday Times 24999 (5th Nov)”

Solving time: 19:06 – A very straightforward solve. Welcome to my 100th blog on this site. It also happens to be two years to the very day since I posted my first one. I was … Read more “Sunday Times 4457 (30 Oct 2011) – A personal milestone”

Solving time 13:22, so a fairly straightforward solve for a Saturday. Clue of the day was obviously 4dn, thanks for that one, setter! Apart from that, one for the literature mafia (as opposed to the … Read more “Saturday Times 24993 (29th Oct)”