I found this quite an easy puzzle – Solving time 16 mins (very fast for me for the Times). * = anagram < = reversed ACROSS1 KA PUT – Ka, slightly obscure, Egyptian vital force, … Read more “23,800”
Times Crossword Club – top 10 improvements
This is a list of suggestions about what they need to look at, in descending order of importance. Please add comments to correct the order or suggest things that I’ve forgotten. My intention is to … Read more “Times Crossword Club – top 10 improvements”
COWPOW polls
Unless there are some volunteers to organise them (in which case, add a comment here!), I’m afraid I’m going to drop these – the hour or so each week that it takes to do them … Read more “COWPOW polls”
23,799 – easy enough
Solving time 6:47 Few problems with this puzzle on a day which is effectively Monday. Happy New Year to all. Across 1 ROTIS=riots*,SERIE(s) 9 (c)HECK(L)ER 10 PUBLISH – Cryptic def., ref. “publish and be damned” … Read more “23,799 – easy enough”
Times 23,798 Lang May Your Lum Reek
Solving time : 30 minutes I bid you welcome to 2008 from a still drowsy Dorset. This is an easy puzzle to start the year.I wish you all good solving in the new year, but … Read more “Times 23,798 Lang May Your Lum Reek”
23797 – Foggyweb’s thimble
Solving time: 1 hour 9 minutes An enjoyable puzzle. I did most fairly quickly, but there were quite a few words I was pretty sure I didn’t know where I had to unravel the wordplay.Quite … Read more “23797 – Foggyweb’s thimble”
ST Jumbo 4256 (Sun 23 Dec) – Wild goose chase
Solving time: 20 mins, one mistake (30ac) A bit of a Christmas theme running through this puzzle (available here), but the grid is horrible, with (e.g.) several six-letter words with just two checked letters. There … Read more “ST Jumbo 4256 (Sun 23 Dec) – Wild goose chase”
Sunday Times 4356…
…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.
Saturday Times 23791 (Dec 22)
Solving time 12:15 Quite a lot of Brit references in this one that may have had overseas solvers scratching their heads, e.g. ISA, TA, D = old money, “Smoke’s part”. Across 4 BI(PART,ISA)N – ISA … Read more “Saturday Times 23791 (Dec 22)”
Jumbo 731 (Sat Dec 15) – Neva mind
Solving time: 34 mins, one mistake (51dn) This was a brilliant puzzle with some fantastic clues and brilliantly-worded definitions. It took me about twice as long as an ‘average’ Jumbo, but I thought I’d got … Read more “Jumbo 731 (Sat Dec 15) – Neva mind”