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Month: May 2023

Quick Cryptic 2394 by Felix

Author   CuraristPosted on 12th May 2023 at 3:00 AM10 September 2025Categories Quick Cryptic

Lots to enjoy in this medium-difficult offering from Felix

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Times Cryptic No 28601 — Somewhere in the middle

Author   plusjeremyPosted on 12th May 2023 at 12:56 AM10 September 2025Categories Daily Cryptic

Somehow this was not so hard and not so easy, all at the same time. Many unknowns for me today, but all fair and gettable.

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Times 28600: Painted into a corner

Author   glhPosted on 11th May 2023 at 1:40 AM10 September 2025Categories Daily Cryptic

Time taken: 10:10, with about a third of that on the bottom left corner, where all the unusual words and traps lay. If you are confident of some of the spellings of the foreign terms … Read more “Times 28600: Painted into a corner”

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Quick Cryptic No 2393 by Wurm – you are my everything!

Author   TheRotterPosted on 11th May 2023 at 1:33 AM10 September 2025Categories Quick Cryptic

Please let us all know how you got on, and I thank Wurm for his efforts on behalf of us all.

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Times Quick Cryptic No 2392 by Trelawney

Author   DoofenschmirtzPosted on 10th May 2023 at 1:30 AM10 September 2025Categories Quick Cryptic

Lots to like here, although I found this trickier than normal from Trelawney. The three down clues in the NW corner all held out to the very end, as did the storyteller.

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Times 28599 – “just one more thing, Ma’am…”

Author   piquetPosted on 10th May 2023 at 1:04 AM10 September 2025Categories Daily Cryptic

I enjoyed finishing this fun puzzle in 15 minutes.

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Times Cryptic 28598

Author   jackktPosted on 9th May 2023 at 1:15 AM10 September 2025Categories Daily Cryptic

3 minutes over my target half-hour was not too bad for a puzzle that contained several words that one doesn’t see every day or even every week.

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Quick Cryptic 2391 by Teazel – Double delight

Author   BletchleyRejectPosted on 9th May 2023 at 1:00 AM10 September 2025Categories Quick Cryptic

A few nefarious characters and what may lie in store for them here.

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Times 28597 – Woe, woe and thrice woe!

Author   ulacaPosted on 8th May 2023 at 1:05 AM10 September 2025Categories Daily Cryptic

Nice to see a Classical clue to slow down the Bletchley Parkers. More of the same, please, setter! 

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Times Quick Cryptic 2390 by Beck

Author   jackktPosted on 8th May 2023 at 1:00 AM10 September 2025Categories Quick Cryptic

This is only Beck’s fourth puzzle, his/her first having appeared last November.

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