Crossword SNITCH

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

Name: dec

TftT Name
Solver Typereference
Average Time22:30
SNITCH Correlation0.8

Top Ten Results

Date Day of week Crossword Solving Time (m:ss)
2023-07-31 Monday 28669 08:24
2024-07-29 Monday 28981 09:12
2021-07-12 Monday 28027 10:03
2020-01-13 Monday 27559 10:54
2022-02-07 Monday 28207 11:09
2025-06-23 Monday 29263 11:27
2023-10-03 Tuesday 28724 11:38
2020-04-15 Wednesday 27639 11:38
2022-09-15 Thursday 28396 11:47
2022-07-25 Monday 28351 11:49

Recent Results

Personal NITCH results

Week beginning Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday
64 2026-06-22 29575 64
75 2026-06-15 29571 75

WITCH results

Week beginning Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday
103 2026-06-22 29575 103
82 2026-06-15 29571 82

Correlation to SNITCH

Plotting alignment results for the last 17 correct entries. Only Monday to Friday data is included.

Monthly average times

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