Category: Weekend Cryptic

Solving time – 12:17 Definitely one for the musical/arts mafia this week. Excellent puzzle though, nothing that required any specialist knowledge really. Across 1 LEWIS,CAR,ROLL – I assume the first children’s author is C.S. Lewis, … Read more “Times Saturday 23838 (Feb 16)”

Solving time 15:12 Should have been quicker, but I got stuck for a while on the last two to go in, 19 across and down, mainly because I couldn’t see why 19d should be GENERAL … Read more “Times Saturday 23832 (Feb 9)”

Solving time 12:55 Almost a pangram, with just the X missing – which is quite surprising as it would have been quite easy to fit the X in, e.g. with NEXT at 25D, changing 28A … Read more “Times Saturday 23826 (Feb 02)”

Solving time 21:00 I found this one a bit hard to get into for some reason, although I can’t remember now which clues caused me any particular difficulty, apart from the last two to go … Read more “Times Saturday 23820”

No time recorded last week, but it felt quite straightforward with no major holdups, so I’d guess around 10-12 minutes. Across 1 COME,DIAN(a) 9 MUD,DYING 10 BURIAL – “berry’ll”, scraping the bottom of the barrel, … Read more “Times Saturday 23814 (Jan 19)”

Sorry this is a day late, but I was away all day yesterday assisting Pete Biddlecombe on his Crossword course. Solving time 8:43 – one of my fastest times for a Saturday puzzle for a … Read more “Times Saturday 23808 (Jan 12)”

Solving time 14:10 This was one of those puzzles which was a real pleasure to solve – not too difficult, but with loads of interesting and witty clues. I started writing this up just after … Read more “Times Saturday 23802 (Jan 5)”

Last week’s Sunday Times is due for blogging tomorrow. Unfortunately I may not be able to post tomorrow. If I can’t, I’ll try to do so on Monday. If it hasn’t appeared by Tuesday, it … Read more “ST 4257”

Solving time 26:55 I was held up for over 10 minutes on the last answer because I put FAST BOWLER in quite early for 22A, which left T?C?E for 23D. There were plenty of good … Read more “Times Saturday 23796 (29 Dec)”

…will not be blogged tomorrow, as it seems to be unavailable from the online Times Crossword Club. Perhaps this is because there wasn’t a crossword last Sunday? If there was, please feel free to comment.