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Day: 10th January 2019

Times 27,245: Cigarettes & Alcohol

Author   VerlainePosted on 10th January 2019 at 10:26 PM10 September 2025Categories Daily Cryptic

A very nice little Friday puzzle with a combination of above averagely devious wordplay and unwieldy vocab (I’m looking at you, PROGNOSTIC and PERSECUTEE) to keep the solver sweating. I took a little less than … Read more “Times 27,245: Cigarettes & Alcohol”

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Times Quick Cryptic No 1263 by Pedro

Author   TheRotterPosted on 10th January 2019 at 1:35 AM10 September 2025Categories Quick Cryptic

A few bits of slightly chewy parsing from Pedro this morning, together with a couple of foreign or adopted words / phrases, but nothing too taxing on the GK front.  I completed this, fully parsed … Read more “Times Quick Cryptic No 1263 by Pedro”

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Times 27244 – what happened to Les One through Five?

Author   glhPosted on 10th January 2019 at 12:50 AM10 September 2025Categories Daily Cryptic

Solving time: 11:03, which is pretty close to my average time, though I think I was on to a few lesser used techniques that popped up in here. I was a little nervous about 13 … Read more “Times 27244 – what happened to Les One through Five?”

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