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Month: October 2024

Times Crossword Championship Tomorrow

Author   JohninterredPosted on 18th October 2024 at 9:22 AM10 September 2025Categories Meetups and Events

Details of the event from the Final Information email are as follows…

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Times 29051 – on this great stage, a fool

Author   william_j_sPosted on 18th October 2024 at 7:00 AM10 September 2025Categories Daily Cryptic

I could find no foothold in this excellent puzzle; it was like solving 30 individual clues rather than a coherent whole.

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Times Quick Cryptic No 2810 by Jimmy

Author   JohninterredPosted on 18th October 2024 at 1:15 AM10 September 2025Categories Quick Cryptic

A gentle quick cryptic for a Friday from Jimmy today. How did you all get on?

Fortnightly Weekend Quick Cryptic.  This time it is Sawbill’s turn to provide the extra weekend entertainment. You can find the crossword  here.

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Times Literary Cryptic Jumbo No 1 Monday 14 October 2024

Author   ZabadakPosted on 17th October 2024 at 6:30 AM10 September 2025Categories Other Crosswords

  Whether we’ll ever see No 2 in this TLS style Jumbo remains to be seen, but it was fun to do, with some stuff I knew well enough and obviously some not part of … Read more “Times Literary Cryptic Jumbo No 1 Monday 14 October 2024”

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29050 Hello wonderful!

Author   ZabadakPosted on 17th October 2024 at 6:25 AM10 September 2025Categories Daily Cryptic

  At the time of writing, I am within a few ticks of my clockwork timing device of the average time for solving this at 12.25, and I rather suspect this will produce some PBs. … Read more “29050 Hello wonderful!”

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Times Quick Cryptic No 2809 by Izetti

Author   rolytolyPosted on 17th October 2024 at 1:35 AM10 September 2025Categories Quick Cryptic

Lovely puzzle, on the trickier side of things.

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Times 29049 – canine care or caries

Author   piquetPosted on 16th October 2024 at 7:00 AM10 September 2025Categories Daily Cryptic

For me, another of those 80 – 20 puzzles, most of it quickly done and few stragglers taking longer than the eighty per cent.

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Times Quick Cryptic No 2808 by Joker

Author   Mike HarperPosted on 16th October 2024 at 1:27 AM10 September 2025Categories Quick Cryptic

It would have been tempting to spend a lot more time enjoying the surfaces

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QC 2807 by Teazel

Author   MerlinPosted on 15th October 2024 at 2:25 AM10 September 2025Categories Quick Cryptic

Good puzzle for fans of Double defs and Cryptic defs, but some bear traps. Pink Square for me, even after parsing them all.

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Times Cryptic 29048

Author   jackktPosted on 15th October 2024 at 1:58 AM10 September 2025Categories Daily Cryptic

I got there in the end although some of it was tricky to unravel.

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