Crossword SNITCH

A quantitative guide to the degree of difficulty of the Times Cryptic Crossword
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Times Cryptic Crossword 28141

Date 22 November 2021
Number 28141
Day of week Monday
NITCH 98
Count of ref solvers 66
Ref solvers excluded with errors 12
Link to crossword View Crossword*
Times for the Times Link 28141

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Detailed solving results

Reference, Tracked and Blog solvers with error-free solutions to this puzzle are shown below.

We also show the solver's Personal NITCH, which is their result on this puzzle compared to their average time, and the Wavelength Index of Times Cryptic Hardness, the WITCH, which is the Personal NITCH compared to the SNITCH.

Name TfTT Name Average time This time Personal NITCH WITCH
mohn mohn2 04:54 05:43 116 118
Nathan Panning 06:31 05:12 79 80
Jason 06:33 07:30 114 116
Diskus 07:03 06:25 91 92
verlaine Verlaine 07:07 06:14 87 88
mauefw Mauefw 07:19 10:35 144 146
mistigris 07:44 08:22 108 110
aphis99 aphis99 07:49 07:01 89 90
lili 08:19 07:45 93 94
Midas 08:49 07:47 88 89
richard 09:17 11:47 126 128
asaldanha 09:24 09:39 102 104
scrabbler 10:17 10:14 99 101
philjordan1147 BUSMAN 10:28 13:14 126 128
AlanS 10:30 09:27 90 91
trux trux20 10:36 11:49 111 113
chriswords 10:42 11:34 108 110
jimpen 10:46 10:03 93 94
Kinghedger 10:57 13:02 119 121
keriothe_ keriothe 12:14 11:54 97 98
Sue Sweeper 12:17 23:46 193 196
fshephe 12:23 10:28 84 85
Heyesey 12:38 10:36 83 84
Tom Stubbs Tom Stubbs 12:50 17:45 138 140
p.wild 13:02 13:12 101 103
Stavros Stavrolex 13:02 21:07 162 165
MikeOsborne mikeosborne 13:22 10:11 76 77
tilbee 13:39 12:34 92 93
Silva 13:51 12:37 91 92
Malcj malcj 13:56 14:00 100 102
Groucho 14:05 14:14 101 103
Crucifer Crucifer 14:33 16:56 116 118
David Crooks dcrooks 14:42 15:24 104 106
Ed freshpot Ed Freshpot 15:28 13:17 85 86
phthisis 15:30 17:33 113 115
pitcaithlie Pitcaithlie 15:30 18:41 120 122
Looch 15:31 13:32 87 88
grape 15:33 21:34 138 140
Paul Bacon 15:37 16:58 108 110
Aloysius 15:45 17:09 108 110
Golvellius 15:58 10:34 66 67
johninterred Johninterred 16:02 16:44 104 106
franceslc11 16:16 16:02 98 100
MK76 16:48 22:43 135 137
Pootle Pootle 16:55 17:07 101 103
ajcauk1 17:23 16:56 97 98
LJCN 17:25 22:23 128 130
tapbarker 17:38 16:33 93 94
Craven 17:42 18:52 106 108
LouWeed LouWeed 17:58 15:43 87 88
RobR RobR 18:01 18:15 101 103
OliviaRhineb oliviarhinebeck 18:05 19:49 109 111
rupe 18:18 27:28 150 153
Hamish.S 18:20 18:31 101 103
Pete_Hartley 18:30 15:26 83 84
robinh 18:48 20:14 107 109
gsriordan52 18:58 16:56 89 90
CentralLine CentralLine 19:08 14:22 75 76
Ease This Jam 19:20 21:45 112 114
Achernar 19:25 21:55 112 114
pterodactyl 19:26 23:38 121 123
Semillon 19:29 18:12 93 94
andrewlake 19:37 27:36 140 142
Colin2355 19:39 17:27 88 89
uvofiz 19:59 27:22 136 138
annbrew 20:02 24:46 123 125
Foozler 20:02 24:53 124 126
Crossiant 20:22 28:26 139 141
Deane Short Deane Short 20:26 17:47 87 88
Solver52 20:38 19:56 96 97
barracuda barracuda 20:48 23:20 112 114
John Arnold 21:06 29:55 141 143
Galspray (Rabbitoh) galspray 21:33 21:59 102 104
KET 21:47 18:27 84 85
David Bourne 21:52 19:24 88 89
pc8 22:01 20:31 93 94
James P Special_bitter 22:25 19:45 88 89
Jagsfan1971 22:46 15:38 68 69
MichelinPoitiers MichelinPoitiers 22:51 21:50 95 96
FrameShift 23:34 27:04 114 116
goblin 23:40 22:09 93 94
Corymbia Corymbia 24:15 28:25 117 119
Jeeves 24:34 21:38 88 89
paul.whitehouse69 24:40 23:46 96 97
zythum 24:46 33:52 136 138
rjcassidy rjcassidy 24:46 24:35 99 101
Manveru 26:07 28:45 110 112
Tudds 26:21 30:21 115 117
Pauline Minter 27:19 22:47 83 84
Crippens1 27:20 23:48 87 88
chris661554 27:30 23:55 86 87
JoeyC 28:30 25:46 90 91
nekabue 28:31 31:10 109 111
eniamretrauq eniamretrauq 28:56 23:22 80 81
JohnDun (johndun) john_dun 29:14 18:18 62 63
SlumdogEngineer 30:25 21:16 69 70
joss henry 31:09 54:44 175 178
boltonwanderer 31:47 28:00 88 89
klamery4 31:55 35:24 110 112
Mike Harper Mike Harper 32:13 38:59 121 123
Gussie 32:38 27:18 83 84
koro kororareka 32:51 26:46 81 82
Cookincats 33:11 32:33 98 100
ulaca ulaca 33:34 38:37 115 117
HanS 34:08 36:41 107 109
starstruck starstruck_au 36:26 58:05 159 162
NAPASAI napasai 38:41 17:48 46 46
empty 41:32 49:18 118 120
marp 42:31 29:58 70 71
MartinP MartinP1 43:37 49:01 112 114
jackk.larg 47:15 52:34 111 113
kjbr 54:37 44:59 82 83

A guide to the solver status

Legend
 Reference solver used for SNITCH
 Other Reference solver
 Tracked solver
 Blog solver

Blog Solvers

Blog Solvers are those who have allowed their times to be taken from the Times for the Times blog.

Notes for Blog Solvers:

  • the most reliable format for reporting times is with format "mm:ss" or as "x minutes" in the title or at the start of the entry
  • only the first main comment for each blogger is used; responses to other comments or a second comment is ignored
  • to report errors, include "n errors" just after the time
  • If you just have a time it is assumed you have no errors unless you mention DNF or pink squares or giving up, etc, in the text
  • Examples of good time notifications are "38:30, 0 errors" and "39 minutes, 0 errors" in the comment title or as the first part of your comment

Notes

The definition of Reference and Tracked solvers is described on the Neutrinos page.

The results for Reference solvers are normally used to calcuate the SNITCH. When this happens they are shown in the list with a solid blue line to the left. In the previous SNITCH results listing for each crossword, these were the only entries shown.

The most common causes for Reference solver results not to be used are: (a) that they did not meet the criteria this month to be used as a reference (e.g. they may not have completed enough puzzles on each day of the week) or (b) they have been pushed out of the top 100 on the leader board. In these cases, the results are now shown, but their data is not used for the SNITCH calculation.

Where there is data for Tracked solvers, I show them also in this table. The solving data is not always available, as the Crossword Club site only shows the top 100 solvers to everyone. Logged-in users get their own leaderboard position and those around them, but this is not available to everyone. So the SNITCH site only gets data for those who have made the top 100 in the leaderboard at some point during the day.

As a result there are a few geographically advantaged solvers; those of us who solve early in the day (e.g. we in the Antipodes, those in Asia and those staying up late in North America) are more likely to hit the leaderboard even with slower times. Solvers who are just as capable but solve later in the UK day might not make the top 100 and I have no way to capture their results.

You may wonder why there are Tracked solvers (in red) with low average solving times, mixed in with the Reference solvers (in blue). These are usually those that, while they don't seem to be Neutrinos, are not well aligned to the SNITCH. So I don't use them as Reference solvers in the SNITCH calculation, but still show their overall results.

You might also notice that there's some inconsistency at the tail end of the Reference solver list. My cutoff point is an average solving time of 45 minutes. But if someone around this mark is chosen as a Reference solver, their next month's results might end up being over 45 minutes and they will still be used. Alternatively, a Tracked solver might creep in under 45 minutes on the next calculation, but didn't make the cut for the prior Reference list. It's on the to-do list to see if I can make this a bit more predictable.

Stored SNITCH Values

Here are the SNITCH values (stored on the day) from the crossword.

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