Crossword SNITCH

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

Name: earlylight

TftT Name
Solver Typereference
Average Time22:33
SNITCH Correlation0.69

Top Ten Results

Date Day of week Crossword Solving Time (m:ss)
2025-11-02 Sunday 5188 02:49
2016-04-20 Wednesday 26391 06:05
2017-08-24 Thursday 26812 06:51
2024-03-18 Monday 28867 08:14
2018-11-01 Thursday 27184 08:16
2016-04-11 Monday 26383 08:44
2016-04-01 Friday 26375 08:47
2017-10-23 Monday 26863 09:10
2016-04-04 Monday 26377 09:13
2017-10-02 Monday 26845 09:13

Recent Results

Personal NITCH results

Week beginning Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday
114 2026-09-07 29641 114
86 2026-08-17 29625 86
132 2026-08-10 29620 132

WITCH results

Week beginning Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday
112 2026-09-07 29641 112
90 2026-08-17 29625 90
123 2026-08-10 29620 123

Correlation to SNITCH

Plotting alignment results for the last 25 correct entries. Only Monday to Friday data is included.

Monthly average times

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