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Times Cryptic 28814

I was pleased with my time considering there were more than my usual average of unknown words or meanings.

12 minutes with half the time spent on four clues in the SW corner.

I struggled a bit with this one.

Solved in one session I found this fairly easy.

The new Saturday Times Quick Cryptic puzzle starts this week and will appear Saturday January 6th.

I was rather surprised to run through this in only 22 minutes.

A Happy New Year to one and all!

I found this mostly straightforward but I lost time over the Scottish team.

I would have finished this well within my target half-hour but for the fruit at 13ac which added a good 6 or 7 minutes to my solving time.

My solving time of 14 minutes suggests this was not entirely straightforward.