Author: macavity123

Morning all Firstly, thanks to jackkt for covering last Thursday. Having moved house recently I have hospital appointments under a new regime and where I had things off pat with my former hospital, the new … Read more “Quick Cryptic No 443 by Joker – A Game of Two Halves”

Morning all Thanks to jacktt for stepping last week in at the last minute when I was longer at the hospital than I should have been. Back today with Grumpy and a thoroughly enjoyable puzzle … Read more “Times Quick Cryptic No 433 by Grumpy – Quote Unquote….”

Morning all It’s a gloomy Thursday here, the dog is curled up at my feet and the cat in front of the monitor and plonked on the keyboard, so apologies for any odd typos that … Read more “Times Quick Cryptic No 423 by Izetti – Anagrammadon”

Morning all Can’t remember the last time I blogged a Dazzler Quick Cryptic. It was a most pleasant solve and definitely at the easier end of the scale. Nothing terribly complicated here, apart from 11 … Read more “Times Quick Cryptic No 418 by Dazzler”

Morning all Solving time: Fair to Middling It’s gloomy and grotty here, but this brightened up my day somewhat. A nice friendly puzzle that contained some smile moments and one or two to make you … Read more “Times Quick Cryptic No 413 by Felix”

Morning all Apologies for the glitch last week. Stuck in Milton Keynes without net access, sounds like a Dr Who plot. Anyway, back to today. Flamande is here today with a very elegant puzzle that … Read more “Times Quick Cryptic No 408 by Flamande – Mr Corbyn might disagree with 21 across”

Hello everyone Apologies for being AWOL for a couple of weeks, a scheduled holiday turned into other things and of course, I forgot to tell Headmaster so I have duly completed my lines and removed … Read more “Times Quick Cryptic No 398 by Izetti”

Morning all! Solving time: Reasonable. We have Joker along today with a pleasant balanced puzzle that didn’t prove too troublesome. lots of clues of the type I call Wordsums (definition below). Off on my jollies … Read more “Times Quick Cryptic No 378 by Joker – Sum fun!”

Solving time: straightforward Morning all The Don is here today with his usual pleasant puzzle that most should find reasonably straightforward. The solution to the last Across clue may not be familiar to some, but … Read more “Times Quick Cryptic Crossword No 368 by Izetti – 8 across was a pile of poo!”

Solving time:- Somewhat troublesome Felix is making one of his occasional appearances today with a puzzle that lies certainly at the harder end of the scale. A number of slightly more obscure definitions didn’t help … Read more “Times Quick Crossword No 363 by Felix”