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Day: 1st November 2016

Times Quick Cryptic 691 by Joker

Author   jackktPosted on 1st November 2016 at 11:50 AM10 September 2025Categories Quick Cryptic

Time taken 11 minutes. I’m not sure what’s happened about today’s QC blog so I am posting this one to cover for Chrisw. Sorry about the brevity, but if anyone has questions I shall be … Read more “Times Quick Cryptic 691 by Joker”

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Times Cryptic Number 26558

Author   jackktPosted on 1st November 2016 at 1:00 AM10 September 2025Categories Daily Cryptic

This continued my run of troubled solves that took me well beyond my 30 minute target. On reflection I can’t really see what gave me so many problems, although if I’d known the name of … Read more “Times Cryptic Number 26558”

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