Category: Weekend Cryptic

Solving time 16:36, which felt slow for a pretty straightforward puzzle. I can’t remember what slowed me up now – probably just my brain not firing on all cylinders on a Saturday morning. Across 4 … Read more “Times Saturday 23707 (15 Sept)”

Solving time 24:07 When I was solving this puzzle a week last Saturday, I realised it was quite tricky so made some notes on it afterwards to make writing the blog much easier this week! … Read more “Times Saturday 23701 – found it!”

Solving time: about 9 mins This is another puzzle I had to re-solve after losing last week’s copy – hence the approximate time. There are old-fashioned aspects of the ST puzzle that take a bit … Read more “Sunday Times 4240 – STill the same”

Solving time 13:48 No real problems with this fairly straightforward puzzle, just slow thinking on my part giving me a below-par (or should that be above-par?) time. Even so, that’s still much better than average … Read more “Times Saturday 23695 (Sep 1)”

Solving time 35:03 A couple of early mistakes made this one harder for me than it should have been, although I think it was pretty tough anyway. Several clues had very complicated wordplay. By comparison, … Read more “Times Saturday 23689 (Aug 25)”

Solving time 15:44 I’ve also now (finally) updated the blog entry for the previous Saturday (23677), which can be found here. This was quite an interesting puzzle with some excellent wordplay in places, although there … Read more “Times Saturday 23683 (Aug 18th)”

Profuse apologies to those who were waiting for this to arrive earlier in the week, but I had a hectic week at work combined with a lot of evening social occasions (Sloggers & Betters 3 … Read more “Times Saturday 23677 (Aug 11)”

Solving time – 38:42 This was another brilliant Saturday puzzle, in the same league as 23647 a few weeks ago. All the surface readings were good. Some of the wordplay was fiendish, some humorous. All … Read more “Times Saturday 23671 (Aug 4th)”

I’ve never solved a Sunday Times puzzle before but reading the posts of my colleague Talbinho I’ve been able to surmise two things about it: it’s quite easy, and it often contains a mistake or … Read more “Sunday Times 4235 (29-07-07)”

Solving time 16:34 About average for a Saturday puzzle. Third blog entry of the day for me, so this will probably be briefer than usual. Across 1 HARRIS – double def. I was confused about … Read more “Times Saturday 23665 (July 28)”