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Day: 4th April 2019

Times 27,317: I Want My Mummy!

Author   VerlainePosted on 4th April 2019 at 6:20 PM10 September 2025Categories Daily Cryptic

Woof, this one felt proper Friday hard, and this coming after a week of pretty hard puzzles. To qualify that, about half of it was rather straightforward, but then you’ve got the explosion in a … Read more “Times 27,317: I Want My Mummy!”

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Times 27316 – Watch this space!

Author   glhPosted on 4th April 2019 at 3:49 AM10 September 2025Categories Daily Cryptic

Greetings all.  In the time since writing the blog I have been informed of a few incorrect parsings that I listed in the blog, and some clues were changed in the electronic version of the … Read more “Times 27316 – Watch this space!”

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Times Quick Cryptic No 1323 by Orpheus

Author   TheRotterPosted on 4th April 2019 at 1:57 AM10 September 2025Categories Quick Cryptic

Well this proved to be a quickie for me from Orpheus, completed and parsed pretty much from top to bottom inside 8 minutes, which is close to a PB.  My COD is 21a for its … Read more “Times Quick Cryptic No 1323 by Orpheus”

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