Solving time : 5m40s – remarkably just about my slowest this week, though it felt like a good time for this puzzle. Again almost a pangram (just K & V missing, and they’d have been … Read more “23,467 – some much-loved favourites”

Solving time : 11:27 Lots of interesting words in an almost pangrammatic grid. I suppose “bicycle quip” is not a common phrase. I am not very good at sporting references, but for some reason there … Read more “23466: no cricket, no queue”

Solving time: 5:08 This could, and probably should, have been a sub-5 time, but I was delayed by first writing AMEND at 4, and by initially guessing SA(LIE)NT at 25, with part of the wordplay … Read more “23,465 – hurrying too much? / Puzzle difficulty”

Solving time: 8:46 A mixed bag today, including a few old chestnuts, but I seemed to look at the harder clues first – on two or three occasions I spent 10-15 secs on a clue, … Read more “23,464 – Not caught out; if only Flintoff, Jones et al could say the same…”

…did you get the picture of a gang of chimps reclothing Caratacus in old, perished underwear? Solving time : 58 minutes. Quite happy with that time. I was left with two to get and was … Read more “23463 – Gracious me…”