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Month: September 2025

Times Quick Cryptic No 3086 by Pedro

Author   JohninterredPosted on 5th September 2025 at 1:19 AM10 September 2025Categories Quick Cryptic

A neat Friday Quick Cryptic from Pedro.

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

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29326 Not from down under, then…

Author   ZabadakPosted on 4th September 2025 at 1:57 AM10 September 2025Categories Daily Cryptic

  18 minutes precisely, taking time to make sure I’d correctly interpreted the wordplay, which varied between the bizarre and the really quite easy. A couple of celebrities put in an appearance, one living, one … Read more “29326 Not from down under, then…”

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Times Quick Cryptic No 3085 by Dangle

Author   rolytolyPosted on 4th September 2025 at 1:17 AM10 September 2025Categories Quick Cryptic

Fun puzzle, on the gentler end of things.

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Times 29325 – literally nonsense.

Author   piquetPosted on 3rd September 2025 at 7:04 AM10 September 2025Categories Daily Cryptic

Another reasonably gentle, enjoyable Wednesday.

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Changes to puzzles on the newspaper site

Author   jackktPosted on 3rd September 2025 at 6:47 AM15 September 2025Categories Announcement

The new Times Puzzles platform came into effect on Wednesday 3rd September.

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Times Quick Cryptic No 3084 by Teazel – The Creator turns Destroyer (of decent solving times)

Author   Mike HarperPosted on 3rd September 2025 at 1:37 AM10 September 2025Categories Quick Cryptic

I found this quite tricky in places, and was not helped by a brief spousal ’emergency’

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Times Cryptic 29324

Author   jackktPosted on 2nd September 2025 at 1:42 AM10 September 2025Categories Daily Cryptic

An enjoyable solve.

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QC 3083 by Jalna

Author   MerlinPosted on 2nd September 2025 at 1:32 AM10 September 2025Categories Quick Cryptic

Not too much trouble from Jalna here

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Times Quick Cryptic 3082 by Pipsqueak

Author   KittyPosted on 1st September 2025 at 7:00 AM10 September 2025Categories Quick Cryptic

Hello everybody. I expect many happy campers today. My Clue of the Day was 18a. Thanks Pipsqueak!

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Times 29323 – Anagram city!

Author   vinyl1Posted on 1st September 2025 at 3:15 AM10 September 2025Categories Daily Cryptic

Here we have a typical Monday offering, which should not prove very challenging for most of our regular crew.

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