Crossword SNITCH

A quantitative guide to the degree of difficulty of the Times Cryptic Crossword

Name: Topical Tim

TftT NameTopical Tim
Solver Typereference
Average Time13:00
SNITCH Correlation0.77

Top Ten Results

Date Day of week Crossword Solving Time (m:ss)
2022-06-13 Monday 28315 03:18
2025-03-17 Monday 29179 03:30
2020-09-23 Wednesday 27777 03:32
2018-10-29 Monday 27181 03:55
2023-01-09 Monday 28495 04:07
2020-05-27 Wednesday 27675 04:13
2022-05-30 Monday 28303 04:26
2022-05-11 Wednesday 28287 04:27
2022-10-10 Monday 28417 04:30
2024-12-17 Tuesday 29102 04:38

Recent Results

Personal NITCH results

Week beginning Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday
95 2026-09-07 29641 95
101 2026-08-31 29635 65 29636 89 29637 149
75 2026-08-24 29629 45 29630 63 29631 55 29632 111 29633 92
83 2026-08-17 29623 66
115 2026-08-10 29617 78 29619 158 29620 162 29621 110
114 2026-08-03 29612 82 29613 59 29614 135 29615 205

WITCH results

Week beginning Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday
94 2026-09-07 29641 94
118 2026-08-31 29635 92 29636 111 29637 152
175 2026-08-24 29629 77 29630 100 29631 611 29632 100 29633 63
100 2026-08-17 29623 110
126 2026-08-10 29617 105 29619 213 29620 151 29621 101
107 2026-08-03 29612 109 29613 85 29614 116 29615 147

Correlation to SNITCH

Plotting alignment results for the last 108 correct entries. Only Monday to Friday data is included.

Monthly average times

The plot below shows the monthly solving times for Topical Tim. These are six-month rolling averages (i.e. the result for each month averages the solving times for the past six months).