Times for The Times Blog Archive

Peter Biddlecombe's "Times for The Times" blog has long been established as the resource for solvers of cryptic puzzles in The Times. Covering the daily, weekend, Jumbo and Mephisto (barred) puzzles, each blog entry explains and evaluates selected clues and attracts contributions from solvers and setters. This archive listing serves as a shortcut to each blog and its responses. It is split into five sections:

Daily - the Monday-Friday puzzles
Saturday - Saturday's prize puzzle
Sunday - the (generally easier) Sunday puzzle
Mephisto - Sunday's barred (difficult) puzzle
Jumbo - Saturday's Jumbo prize puzzle

To save space, each entry consists of Puzzle Number only. On following each link, the blog date you see is not necessarily the date of publication - this applies particularly to prize puzzles. The first daily puzzle entry is for 1st November 2006.

Daily (including Qualifier puzzles for the Times Crossword Championship)
23435 23436 23437 23439 23440 23441 23442 23443 23445 23446 23447 23448 23449 23451 23452 23453 23454 23455 23457 23458 23459 23460 23461 23463 23464 23465 23466 23467 23469 23470 23471 23472 23473 23475 23476 23477 23478 23479 23481 23482 23483 23484 23486 23487 23488 23489 23490 23492 23493 23494 23495 23496 23498 23499 23500 23501 23502 23504 23505 23506 23507 23508 23510 23511 23512 23513 23514 23516 23517 23518 23519 23520 23522 23523 23524 23525 23526 23528 23529 23530 23531 23532 23534 23535 23536 23537 23538 23540 23541 23542 23543 23544 23546 23547 23548 23549 23550 23552 23553 23554 23555 CQ001 23556 23558 23559 23560 23561 23562 23564 23565 23566 23567 23568 23570 23571 23572 23573 23574 23576 23577 23578 CQ002 23579 23580 23582 23583 23584 23585 23586 23588 23589 23590 23591 23592 23594 23595 23596 23597 23598 23600 23601 23602 23603 23604

Saturday
23432 23438 23444 23450 23456 23462 23468 23474 23480 23485 23491 23497 23503 23509 23515 23521 23527 23533 23539 23545 23551 23557 23563 23569 23575 23581 23587 23593

Sunday Times
4196 4197 4198 4199 4200 4201 4202 4203 4204 4205 4206 4207 4208 4209 4210 4211 4212 4213 4214 4215 4216 4217 4218 4219 4220 4221 4222 4223

Mephisto
2409 2410 2411 2412 2413 2414 2415 2416 2417 2418 2419 2420 2421 2422 2423 2424 2425 2426 2427 2428 2429 2430 2431 2432 2433 2434 2435 2436

Jumbo
666 667 668 669 670 671 672 673 674 675 676 677 678 679 680 681 682 683 684 685 686 687 688 689 690 691 692 693 694 695