Appropriately for New Year’s Eve, we have a double dose of beer and spirits for our final solve of the year.
Month: December 2025
Quick Cryptic No 3186 by Jalna
Perhaps a little on the harder side?
Quick Cryptic 3185 by Joker
Happy Twixtmas to everyone.
Times Cryptic 29426
Time: 36 minutes to get within one answer of completing the grid but I was unable to finish even after resorting to aids so I gave up and revealed the answer. Apart from that … Read more “Times Cryptic 29426”
Times 29425 – Deja vu
This is a puzzle of pretty much average Monday difficulty
Quick Cryptic 3184 by Hurley
That’s more like it!
Mephisto 3408 – You’ve got me, Paul!
This was quite an easy one from Paul, except for one small point. The answers are mostly quite accessible, even if some of the wordplay is a bit convoluted.
Sunday Times Cryptic No 5195 by Robert Price — Oscars night
An entertaining exercise, as always, where tightly packed clues explode in the mind with a flash of light.
Quick Cryptic no 3183 by Shay
Shay lives up to his reputation as one of the tougher setters.
Times Cryptic Jumbo 1764 – Born in Arizona, moved to Babylonia!
I managed to solve this one readily enough, spread out over several sessions. The second long answer is not used in the USA, and I had to get a number of crossers before concluding what the answer must be.