Solving time: Gave up on 1dn after about 15 mins. Plenty here for the purist to quibble with. If anyone has a better answer for 1dn, please let me know! Apologies for the late posting, … Read more “ST 4222 (Sun Apr 29) – Puttee-fussing”
23,594 – short in duration
Solving time: 27 minutesVery fast for me. Got off to a great start and kept going. I think the only unfamiliar words for me were beetle=jut, barge=hopper and the composer Orlando di Lasso. Reading through … Read more “23,594 – short in duration”
Mephisto 2435/give me a breek
Solving time: 2h Haven’t done one of these for a while – and I had to resort to Chambers fairly quickly. The usual smattering (flood?) of archaisms and Scots and a couple of murky wordplays. … Read more “Mephisto 2435/give me a breek”
Times Saturday 23587
Solving time 12:17 A fairly quick time for me for a Saturday puzzle – I actually didn’t get around to solving it until Monday evening, so maybe that helped. Across 1 DASH – quadruple definition! … Read more “Times Saturday 23587”
23,592 – Friday fun
This was a really enjoyable puzzle to solve, mainly because of the quality of the clues. There were a lot of “kickselfs”, where the answer was more obvious than it seemed at first. Indeed, my … Read more “23,592 – Friday fun”
Jumbo 694 (Sat 21 Apr) – REMarkable, tREMendous, supREMe
Solving time: 34:14, two mistakes (40ac and 6dn). Super puzzle with some lovely definitions. My favourites were 15ac (‘leaving mark’ for EXIT WOUND), 33ac (‘Missing dope’ for UNINFORMED), 52ac (‘Devotional base’ for PRAYER MAT), 9dn … Read more “Jumbo 694 (Sat 21 Apr) – REMarkable, tREMendous, supREMe”
23,4591 – rev rev
Solving time : 10:30 I think this puzzle should be fairly straightforward. There are no very difficult individual clues – the last ones I solved were 2D and 13A -, and no obscure words. I … Read more “23,4591 – rev rev”
This blog is now 0.5 years old!
If a week is a long time in politics, 6 months seems an eternity in the blogsphere. Bloggers, and more so commenters, come and go, and I don’t know who reads the ‘About this blog’ … Read more “This blog is now 0.5 years old!”
23,590 – Seeing double
Solving time: 12:27 – last to go in were the 5/16 crossing, then 17 which took 2 or 3 minutes to puzzle out. Across 1 CANDLEWICK – 2 meanings – candlewick is that stuff that … Read more “23,590 – Seeing double”
Mephisto 2434 – Mike Laws
Solving time – 33 minutes, without Chambers Mephisto puzzles by Mike Laws can be tricky, but this one was fairly straightforward. One or two points of detail mentioned below where you may be able to … Read more “Mephisto 2434 – Mike Laws”