Author: Curarist

This didn’t put up a great deal of resistance, coming in well under target at 4 and a bit minutes.

Medium difficulty I would say, with some write-ins as well as chewier ones.

Another orgy of anagrams, which took a little while to get going, but flowed well after that

One for the anagram fans, this was pretty straightforward and workmanlike.

This took a while to get going, and I stared for ages at 15dn until it twigged, so an above-par time of 9 minutes for me. Nice surfaces generally. My COD has to be 16ac.

Well this was fairly straightforward, though nothing like as easy as the one I blogged by mistake this morning (always remember to refresh your tabs, boys and girls). I came in at a more or … Read more “Quick Cryptic 2124 by Izetti”

Well, well. After a long run of easy ones to blog, I think a lot pf people are going to find this a bit of a challenge. I could not parse 23ac and I was on … Read more “Quick Cryptic 2114 by Rongo”

Nice and straightforward, though for some reason  I couldn’t see 2dn for ages. I was on the lookout for some April-fool-type shenanigans but I can’t see any. 8 minutes for me. Across 3 A dish … Read more “Quick Cryptic 2104 by Oink”

Another four-and-a-half-minuter for me, compact and pleasing with some nice surfaces esp 12ac and 24 ac. I didn’t know 11 across, but the wordplay was straightforward. Across 1 Stella met hysteria, displaying jewel (8) AMETHYST … Read more “Quick Cryptic 2094 by Juno”

For some reason I absolutely tore through this in 4 minutes, which is my quickest time in ages. Everything is pretty familiar, to an experienced solver at least. The only one that gave me pause … Read more “Quick Cryptic 2084 by Orpheus”