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Day: 19th March 2020

Times 27,617: Fridays, How We’ve Missed You

Author   VerlainePosted on 19th March 2020 at 8:02 PM10 September 2025Categories Daily Cryptic

You know it’s a Friday, or it bally well should be, when Latinate terms like 11, 20 and 22ac are liberally interspersed with YEAH and SOZ and ALLEY-OOP; and Baruch, Boris and César happily rub … Read more “Times 27,617: Fridays, How We’ve Missed You”

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Times Quick Cryptic No 1573 by Pedro

Author   TheRotterPosted on 19th March 2020 at 1:50 AM10 September 2025Categories Quick Cryptic

This was comfortably inside my upper (generous?) time limit at 14 minutes, but again, held some traps.  Hopefully, you will have managed to complete in a reasonable time yourselves.  I see neither theme nor NINA, … Read more “Times Quick Cryptic No 1573 by Pedro”

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Times 27616 – one for you to 10 before it 15 you

Author   glhPosted on 19th March 2020 at 12:37 AM10 September 2025Categories Daily Cryptic

Solving time: 8:54. A little faster than my usual, but I think I might have just been on the wavelength here, as there are some unusual phrases and entries where the wordplay came quickly to … Read more “Times 27616 – one for you to 10 before it 15 you”

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