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Day: 4th December 2017

Times 26899 – What a fool conceives?

Author   vinyl1Posted on 4th December 2017 at 2:08 AM10 September 2025Categories Daily Cryptic

Music: Love, RevisitedTime: 50 minutes I found this one really tough, mainly due to several answers I simply did  not know.  As in Mephisto or the Club Monthly, it is possible to laboriously construct unknowns from the … Read more “Times 26899 – What a fool conceives?”

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Quick Cryptic 975 by Grumpy

Author   mohn2Posted on 4th December 2017 at 1:45 AM10 September 2025Categories Quick Cryptic

This appears to be Grumpy’s first puzzle for over a year and perhaps that lack of recent familiarity contributed to me finding it a bit harder than average. There’s little that could be described as … Read more “Quick Cryptic 975 by Grumpy”

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