Times Cryptic 26794 3rd August 2017. Somewhere, a crossword!
Right, now. Clearly a lot of today’s discussion will revolve around the pros and cons of the new site, like not working at midnight, so I solved on the newspaper site, which the new site very, very...
View ArticleTimes Quick Cryptic No 888 by Howzat
Amid the novelty of the exciting new website, this is Howzat's fourth puzzle since first appearing at the start of the year. Very nice it was too! I had a mere two mistakes at the 12 minute mark:"add"...
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TLS 1184 by Talos - Goodbye to All This?
And so the TfTT TLS blog pulls on its chalky old gown, downs the last of that half-decent madeira and totters to the lectern to deliver its valediction. As 25's Renton put it, What kin ye dae? (see...
View ArticleQuick Cryptic 889 by Rongo
Well, what a week it's been in Crosswordland, at least for those using the Crossword Club. I guess Quicky solvers have been relatively unaffected. The Club site, which now includes the Quicky along...
View ArticleTimes 26,795: Bar Flies
Hello from New York! As a bit of fun this week, and because the changes to the Crossword Club mean that none of us know whether we're coming or going anyway, I did this puzzle as a four-way joint...
View ArticleTimes Saturday 26790 - July 29, 2017. Call me baffled.
I don’t know if it was because I have just got back from being heavily engaged in other things, but this crossword seemed to be a struggle from start to finish. (Thanks to McText for filling in last...
View ArticleJUMBO 1276
I found this relatively straightforward as it only took about 35 minutes but I don't think there were many write-ins: pretty much every clue required a little thought and I found it hard to find many...
View ArticleSunday Times 4757 by Jeff Pearce
A not too stretching puzzle from Jeff which I enjoyed solving whilst sipping a couple of glasses of wine in the garden of a French farmhouse owned by some friends near Carcassonne with whom I am...
View ArticleMephisto 2970 - Paul McKenna
Harder than last week I thought – an enjoyable test. A slight query at 21 Down where the clue appears to be missing a deletion indicator. My thanks to Wiki for the ski champion.Across1Very good pop...
View ArticleTimes 26797 - Time to hang out the washing?
A slightly tougher than normal Monday, which I think would be borne out by the Snitchometer, if it hadn't gone into dock for a migration-induced overhaul. I'm doing this write-up on the iPad,...
View ArticleTimes Quick Cryptic 890 by Wurm
This is only Wurm's second outing as our setter, his (?) first appearance being on 21st June this year when I completed the puzzle in 7 minutes. I needed 17 minutes to finish this one, although a good...
View ArticleTimes Quick Cryptic 891 by Felix - it's a gas...
Four long answers look daunting but break down quite simply. With these in, the rest ought to follow reasonable easily. I took 12 minutes but spent some time chewing on some word play. I quite liked...
View ArticleTimes Cryptic 26798
This one took me 48 minutes. I found it quite tricky with a number of rather intricate parsings. For some reason my LOI (19ac) took for ever to parse but I had stopped the clock long before then.As...
View ArticleQuick Cryptic 892 by Tracy
A thoroughly enjoyable puzzle from Tracy which contained a nice mix of a few "gimmes" (e.g. 12ac, 3dn) and some more tricky stuff. I particularly liked the nicely disguised hidden at 8ac, the literary...
View ArticleTimes 26799 - when it comes to money
This is one of those puzzles where a good few of the answers seem to have some kind of vague theme running through, but you can't quite say it's thematic. I'm thinking of, for example, 25a, 23a, 3d,...
View ArticleTimes Quick Cryptic No 893 by Izetti
A mostly excellent workout from Izetti which I predict will cause some new solvers a few problems. I certainly struggled with some parts of this and took well over my target of 15 minutes. There is a...
View ArticleTimes 26800 - was this to your 8?
Solving time : 17:36 - one of the more difficult solves for me, though at the end I'm kicking myself for some fairly simple wordplay that I was just too dense to see at the time. This is a very tricky...
View ArticleTLS Crossword 1185 - "1 Across and 1 Down" by Praxiteles - July 21, 2017.
ENVOI"Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery". The theme of this excellent puzzle is Jane Austen - for obvious reasons (the 200th anniversary of her death). There seems to have been some...
View ArticleQuick Cryptic 894 by Teazel
Reasonably smooth going today. I solved this having got up early to take Mrs Curarist to the airport, so I am a bit more awake than usual, It came in just under 7 minutes. Lots of double definitions,...
View ArticleTimes 26,801: Keep Calm And Carry On
I don't think this puzzle was quite as tricksy as yesterday's number (I haven't checked the Club leaderboard for confirmation yet though), but thanks to a few clever clues it ended up taking me...
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