As it happens I drew Hurley as the setter last week too. This is a well composed puzzle with some good surfaces and concise clueing. Nothing tricky or unfair. I recycled the Whister’s Mother userpic … Read more “Quick Cryptic 518 by Hurley”
Month: March 2016
Times 26349 – a curate’s egg
Apologies for the slightly late blog. A gentle 25 minutes to solve and parse this offering, with concentration hampered by the cleaning lady vacuuming around me (not on her usual day this week). Then the … Read more “Times 26349 – a curate’s egg”
Quick Cryptic Number 517 by Felix
Continuing the run of not-too-tricky quickies today, my only real hold up was 1ac (causing a bit of a groan when the penny dropped). Plenty of clearly signposted anagrams, nice surface readings, etc. Thanks setter. … Read more “Quick Cryptic Number 517 by Felix”
Quick Cryptic 516 by Hawthorn
On the easy-ish side today in around 10 minutes. The ‘ish’ is thanks to the SE corner which held me up for a while. Good fun as there are lots of clues where word play … Read more “Quick Cryptic 516 by Hawthorn”
Times Cryptic 26348
This one took me 28 minutes including parsing everything along the way (or so I thought) so I expect the speed merchants have had a field day. I say ‘or so I thought’ because on … Read more “Times Cryptic 26348”