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Day: 29th May 2023

Times 28615 – The Monday after Pentecost!

Author   vinyl1Posted on 29th May 2023 at 2:18 AM10 September 2025Categories Daily Cryptic

I found this a bit on the tricky side, with the kind of literals one might find in Mephisto.   Fortunately, the vocabulary was not  particularly esoteric, so if you trust the cryptics you will get the answers. 

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Times Quick Cryptic 2405 by Orpheus – plenty more fish

Author   KittyPosted on 29th May 2023 at 1:41 AM10 September 2025Categories Quick Cryptic

Hello everyone.  At first this Quick Cryptic seemed like it would live up to its name and I zoomed along … until I didn’t.

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