Solving time: 10:03 This should please Jimbo more than yesterday’s, I think. Arts has three people (if you count Icarus) to science’s one (Piaget), but there’s lots of inventive wordplay and not much reliance on … Read more “Times 24206”

Solving time : 25 minutes A largely straightforward puzzle with one or two little niggles and too many weak cryptic definitions. Nothing particularly stood out for me. Across 1 TICK – two meanings 1=time, 2=irritating … Read more “Times 24,205 Little to tical my fancy”

Solving time: 40 minsMusic: Prokofiev Classical Symphony/Ivanov Caucasian Sketches, Rozhadestvensky/Moscow Philharmonic I admit I was a little nervous printing this one off at 8:01 PM EDT, but solving the first clue before the page was … Read more “Times 24204 – Dhabi Day”

Solving time: 8:40 Standard fare with a mixture of good (1ac, 13ac) and bad (15ac, 7dn, 8dn). * = anagram, “X” = sounds like ‘X’. Across 1 AQUALUNG – nice pun on ‘the deep’ = … Read more “ST 4324 (Sun 12 Apr) – Take a deep breath”

Solving time: 15.22. I finished most of the puzzle within 10 minutes but then ground to a halt in the top left, where a combination of interlocking blind spots left me unable to break either … Read more “Times Crossword 24202”

Solving time : 20 minutes – there were some words here that might stretch the old general knowledge. I got about two thirds of this and came to a grinding halt on both the bottom … Read more “Times 24201 – two countries, a bad hair day and a Jewish rite of passage”