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Day: 30th January 2015

Times 26,009: Thomas Love Peacock’s Holiday Home

Author   VerlainePosted on 30th January 2015 at 8:16 AM10 September 2025Categories Daily Cryptic

Extremely straightforward today I thought – resulting in a near-PB for me of 8m 47s. Don’t know about the rest of you but I would always rather have more stumbling blocks thrown in my path, … Read more “Times 26,009: Thomas Love Peacock’s Holiday Home”

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Quick Cryptic Number 234 by Orpheus

Author   william_j_sPosted on 30th January 2015 at 8:08 AM10 September 2025Categories Quick Cryptic

Nothing to trouble seasoned quickie solvers here, and a couple of cryptic definitions to get us novices thinking laterally. I thought many of the definition parts of clues were neat and well disguised, especially 16ac, … Read more “Quick Cryptic Number 234 by Orpheus”

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Club Monthly 20172 January 2015

Author   JerryWPosted on 30th January 2015 at 12:55 AM10 September 2025Categories Monthly Club Special

Solving Time: Fairly quick again this month, under the hour. A very nice puzzle as always, and it is a pangram as well, I see. cd = cryptic definition, dd = double definition, rev = … Read more “Club Monthly 20172 January 2015”

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