Author: emu66

Some nice anagrams and surface readings here, I thought, and good to see a different Chinese dynasty from the more usual Ming appearing. I was slightly misled by trying to find a particular country for … Read more “Quick Cryptic 464 by Hurley”

Thank you to Pip for coming to the rescue last week. I should now be up and running for the foreseeable.A good workout this week, with just a couple of clues causing a bit of … Read more “Quick Cryptic 459 by Oran”

A mostly straightforward solve this week. I thought 8 across a clever clue, first in its misdirecting surface reading and then in causing me to try think of words meaning accommodate to write backwards. 1 … Read more “Quick Crossword 449 by Orpheus”

Rather too many ‘well, it must be that’, write it in and ask questions later, clues for me this week! All seemed fair, though in the calmness of later analysis, but I’d never heard of … Read more “Quick Cryptic 444 by Teazel”

This one felt a little trickier to get going on than recent Friday quickies, but at least I wasn’t left crunching through the alphabet this week. A version of an old chestnut at 20a, and … Read more “Quick Cryptic 439 by Mara”

Another Friday quickie which left me going through the alphabet to get the last one after everything else had gone in fairly easily. Even after deciding that it had to be ATOM, it took a … Read more “Quick Cryptic 434 by Joker”

All seemed to be going swimmingly and I thought I was on for a fast solve until I came to 8d. Determined not to be tricked by the setter into thinking linesman was anything to … Read more “Quick Cryptic 429 by Teazel”

Herewith my first attempt at blogging the Quick crossword; please be gentle if there are anomalies in style or formatting! Nothing too troublesome, apart from the terror engendered by a blank grid and the expectation … Read more “Quick Cryptic 424 by Marty”