Times 28216 – why don’t you come to your senses?

64 comments on “Times 28216 – why don’t you come to your senses?”

1. Thank you!
2. I’m another who saw the long anagrists and had to wait patiently for crossers before being able to solve them. They all fell into place eventually though. I failed to see BUST until I had both crossers. GET IT was FOI and CONCORDAT brought up the rear. 30:46. Thanks setter and George.
3. 24.28 a very satisfying solve. I liked the long anagrams for hostile witness and market research. Concordat was from word play alone and very pleasing to crack all the elements where line was not L but cord and film not ET or pic but coat.
4. Half an hour, but a few biffed. Pleased to finish, pleased with the time taken. Must have been on the wavelength. Thanks, George, and setter.
5. Thought this pretty straightforward until the last 2 GREBE and REEVE, which had me befuddled. I was looking for a mountain not a bird, that was the trouble. And the Chaucer bit also had me confused.
   WOD MAGNILOQUENCE
6. A fast time for me (anything under 35 minutes counts as fast). Failed to parse egocentric and concordat. For the latter, I was trying use concord for bond with ET for film but couldn’t work out how ‘new line inserted’ changed the E to an A. Oh well.

   Thanks to the setter for an enjoyable puzzle and to our blogger for the explanations.

7. Thanks, George, and Setter – really enjoyed this. Particularly on reflection, actually, as I didn’t really feel on top of my game while I was about it. Much to appreciate.
8. It pains me a shade that at times I have to sacrifice sound parsing for biffing.

   This seemed very much like the latter kind of grid where instead of painstakingly building complex answers, I can bung them in from a couple of checkers with the vague notion that they might be right.

   After a slow first pass with just a pencilled RATED and penned GET IT and ANTS, things picked up though I failed to get any of the juicy anagrams off the bat.

   Was pleased with MAGNILOQUENCE from guessing the QUENCE and mangling the rest, but MARKET RESEARCH took a long time to come, and the less obvious HOSTILE WITNESS remained a bunch of mixed-up letters until the LHS was complete, bar the Vatican thingummyjig.

   EGOCENTRIC and EVACUATED were bunged in more or less unparsed (on reading the blog, an MER that the ‘heart’ of Nevada would be ‘evad’ rather than just ‘va’), before the JANITOR completed the checkers for LOI CONCORDAT which rang only a dim bell, but parsed well.

9. Really enjoyed this but second pink square day in a row this time due to stupidity — biffed anti could not explain it and never went went back to it. 23 mins otherwise. Some lovely clues here — COD to 1d.
   Recently heard Linda Ronstadts 10 across for the first time in years — chune as I believe the younger folk say😊
   Thanks G and setter
10. Found that pretty straightforward, though I hesitated over the neep, wondering if it might be spelled neap and therefore not the answer. I remember Indian club swinging in the Royal show or whwtver it was called – that thing on telly where the armed forces competed putting a cannon together etcetera in front of a relative of HRH. One of the few things our WW2 veteran headmaster allowed us boarders to watch on TV at prep school in Ireland.
11. 12:37. Average time for a puzzle of average difficulty (based on the SNITCH). But I got more-than-average enjoyment from it.

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