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Day: 26th August 2021

Times 28,067: Who’s Been Cluing My Porridge?

Author   VerlainePosted on 26th August 2021 at 5:23 PM10 September 2025Categories Daily Cryptic

No real hard vocab this Friday – unless you want to count OVIFORM – and mostly uncomplicated cluing, but a fair challenge nonetheless. I mostly liked seeing GCHQ as wordplay fodder, “cryptically relaxed” for DIAL … Read more “Times 28,067: Who’s Been Cluing My Porridge?”

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Times Quick Cryptic No 1948 by Tracy

Author   rolytolyPosted on 26th August 2021 at 3:14 AM10 September 2025Categories Quick Cryptic

I spent a long time staring at my final two (5d and 10ac) before taking a break, and saw them fairly quickly on my return. So 13-ish minutes, in total, if you don’t include the … Read more “Times Quick Cryptic No 1948 by Tracy”

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28066 Thursday, 26 August 2021 Spurred on

Author   ZabadakPosted on 26th August 2021 at 2:27 AM10 September 2025Categories Daily Cryptic

Quite a gentle offering this one, which is just as well because I’m celebrating my (our) 48th wedding anniversary in a pleasant hotel in Wales with a thankfully robust internet connection. A certain quantity of … Read more “28066 Thursday, 26 August 2021 Spurred on”

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