Author: Chris

Although I felt there was quite a lot of complexity in the parsing I ended up with 7:41 – which continues my run of good times.Today’s puzzle will be great if you like 13 letter … Read more “Times Quick Cryptic 1146 by Hurley”

A pleasant puzzle from Teazel which had points of interest – I was misled by the definitions in 7dn and loi 12dn and dnk 4ac – but there were always easy ones to fill in … Read more “Times Quick Cryptic 1141 by Teazel”

No time to report today but my guess is that this is a medium difficulty puzzle from Mara. Plenty of anagrams around – roughly a quarter of the clues.I got on fairly well throughout until … Read more “Times Quick Cryptic 1136 by Mara”

This initially seemed hard but I got underway quite quickly with 1dn (despite not being familiar with the university), got used to what seemed to me to be an unusual amount of verbiage in the … Read more “Times Quick Cryptic 1131 by Joker”

Apart from the monster(s) in the blog (refer to 3dn and the bit-of-fun challenge at the end of the blog) there was nothing too scary here (except, perhaps, my ignorance of 13dn) and I registered … Read more “Times Quick Cryptic 1121 by Orpheus”

Thanks to Flamande for a puzzle in which there was a great deal to enjoy. I’d completed the grid in 8 minutes except for 12, 14 and loi 23ac, my final time being just over … Read more “Times Quick Cryptic 1116 by Flamande”

Given this is the 1,111th QC, I looked hard for hidden messages but apart from a vaguely costume drama feel (1dn 4dn 7dn 11ac leaving 12ac 14ac to 15dns 24ac) could not find anything conclusive. … Read more “Times Quick Cryptic 1111 by Grumpy”

This puzzle was a mixture of lots of easy and small clues with some unusual vocabulary thrown in to balance the books. I took a lot of time at LOI 1dn and unnecessarily held myself … Read more “Times Quick Cryptic 1106 by Teazel”

A QC not to be taken lightly – I’m not sure biffers will find much joy – and then, when you get to the parsing, there’s quite a lot to work through. At 13ac, for … Read more “Times Quick Cryptic 1101 by Flamande”

A lot of multiple word play clues, many anagrams, made this on the hard side for me today – 16 minutes to complete. Thinking of a comparison to the main 15 X 15 puzzle, I … Read more “Times Quick Cryptic 1096 by Mara”