Solving time: 11:23 Chewy stuff. I have commented on 28 of the 32 clues. Do ask if you want to know about any of the other four. And lots of good stuff too, including neat … Read more “23,729 – seven-eighths”
Times Crossword Championship 2007 – results
As promised, here are full results, which were sent to me by the organiser with permission to put them up. Producing this HTML version from a Word doc took me about one hour with pretty … Read more “Times Crossword Championship 2007 – results”
23,728 – Championship Prelim 1, Puzzle 2
Solving time: about 8 minutes on the day As long as you knew or guessed enough of various literary and general knowledge references, this was a straightforward puzzle by current championship standards, with two easy … Read more “23,728 – Championship Prelim 1, Puzzle 2”
RTC contests for Championship puzzles
The six puzzles from the two preliminary rounds will be published on Wednesdays, and I’m pretty sure this will start tomorrow. The Times website is being rather slow to put up the Grand Final puzzles … Read more “RTC contests for Championship puzzles”
Times 23727/almost completely die
Solving time: 40:10 A bit of a challenge that had me looking a thing or two up – note that my time for this is more than Peter’s cumulative time at the recent championship. I … Read more “Times 23727/almost completely die”
23726
Solving time : 51 mins Writing this very late – sorry. I have spent two long days working in the offices of an ICT company, but Livejournal is on their pornography black list and so … Read more “23726”
40 years on…
In 1967, Terry Biddlecombe won the Cheltenham Gold Cup on Woodland Venture. Today, I just managed to win a “Cheltenham silver cup” for the Times Crossword Championship. I’m afraid I was too busy accepting congratulations … Read more “40 years on…”
ST 4244 (Sun 29 Sep) – Salubritas et Eruditio
Solving time: 6:51 Very quick blog for this, as I’m sure noone is remotely interested given today’s main event. 20dn is terrible, the rest fairly standard. Rather uncharitably I hope that Alonso and Raikkonen crash … Read more “ST 4244 (Sun 29 Sep) – Salubritas et Eruditio”
Times Saturday 23719 (Sep 29)
Solving time 17:16 I thought I’d made hard work of this until I read that Pete Biddlecombe took an hour and talbinho a whole day! Shame this wasn’t one of the Championship puzzles in Cheltenham! … Read more “Times Saturday 23719 (Sep 29)”
Jumbo 719 (Sat 22 Sept) – Roughing it
Solving time: Gave up on the last 4 (starred) after 45 mins. Very tough this one, although I’m sure more cultured solvers will have known 1ac and so found the top left much less of … Read more “Jumbo 719 (Sat 22 Sept) – Roughing it”