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Day: 8th September 2020

Times Quick Cryptic 1696 by Joker

Author   ChrisPosted on 8th September 2020 at 2:03 AM10 September 2025Categories Quick Cryptic

With honourable mentions to 9ac and 10dn, COD goes to 18ac which took some crunching and took me just over my 10 minute target, but did so with humour. In fact, the whole puzzle was … Read more “Times Quick Cryptic 1696 by Joker”

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Times Cryptic 27764

Author   jackktPosted on 8th September 2020 at 2:00 AM10 September 2025Categories Daily Cryptic

Solving time: 53 minutes. My timing confirms that I didn’t find this so easy. As usual definitions are underlined in bold italics, {deletions and substitutions are in curly brackets} and [anagrinds, containment, reversal and other … Read more “Times Cryptic 27764”

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