Author: jackkt

And so we reach Quick Cryptic No 300 having started out on 10th March last year, and to mark the occasion we have a new setter, or at least a new setter’s name, ‘Palpatine’, which … Read more “Times Quick Cryptic 300 by Palpatine”

I wonder how this one will go down. I found some of it quite tough and in several cases needed more than a couple of checkers to come up with the right answer – 1dn … Read more “Times Quick Cryptic 290 by Tracy”

9 minutes. I think most solvers will find this one fairly straightforward apart from a reference to a somewhat obscure 15th century poet, a French department and a crossword favourite that some newbies may not … Read more “Times Quick Cryptic 280 by Orpheus”

I don’t think there’s much to frighten the horses in this one, but we’ll see. It took me 8 minutes with the last minute spent on 14dn alone whilst I worked out what was going … Read more “Quick Cryptic 270 by Flamande”

This one took me 9 minutes so I’d rate it at the easier end of the spectrum, and with some confidence considering how tricky Izetti’s offering was on Friday, and that’s not a criticism btw. … Read more “Times Quick Cryptic 260 by Hurley”

At 13 minutes I found this puzzle quite testing but reviewing it just now whilst rereading the blog I can’t see what delayed me unless it was the two long Down answers that needed so … Read more “Times Quick Cryptic 250 by Tracy”