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Times Quick Cryptic 3271 by Mara

Horses may safely graze

Time taken: 11:36

A mixed bag of the easy, smooth and obscure this week.

Very pleasant fare from Hurley.

A couple of clues here for our ‘very wise’ (I would never say ‘smug’) classicists.

A very enjoyable solve but some of the parsing beat me until I came to write the blog.

I threw in the towel after ten minutes tussling with 4 down

The surface readings struck me as particularly smooth today.

This was a pleasant puzzle from John Grimshaw, a good challenge but not excessively difficult. There were some good starter clues, such as….

Mainly just everyday words here, nothing very obscure… but, oh, those sneaky definitions!