Author: mohn2

An enjoyable puzzle, with only the clue for 12A leaving me a little dissatisfied. It’s a solver-friendly grid in that only 4 answers have an unchecked first letter. There are various schools of thought as … Read more “Quick Cryptic 116 by Orpheus”

The link from the Times site seems to be working – hopefully not famous last words. As a computer programmer in my previous life, it always felt like a defeat to use the mouse instead … Read more “Quick Cryptic 106 by Tracy”

As we begin the week that will see the 100th Quick Cryptic, it is mind-boggling that simply making the puzzle available to punters is proving such an IT conundrum (in other technology news, today marks … Read more “Quick Cryptic 96 by Orpheus”

My Times subscription expired last week though my Crossword Club sub didn’t, leaving me in the situation where I can access all the puzzles … except the one that I need to blog. As such, … Read more “Quick Cryptic 86 by Joker”

The puzzle can be found here: http://feeds.thetimes.co.uk/timescrossword/20140623/183/ This is Izetti’s sixth Quick offering, I think, and has all the smoothness experienced solvers will know from his many guises in other newspapers. 21A may cause some … Read more “Quick Cryptic 76 by Izetti”

The puzzle can be found at http://feeds.thetimes.co.uk/timescrossword/20140609/173/ This is Hurley’s sixth offering in the Quick Cryptic line, the previous five seemingly scattered all over the difficulty spectrum, going by people’s comments. I don’t think there’s … Read more “Quick Cryptic 66 by Hurley”

The puzzle can be found at: http://feeds.thetimes.co.uk/timescrossword/20140526/163/ Orpheus’s fifth, I think, and in common with the previous four I would peg it as being at the easier end of the spectrum. There’s just one full … Read more “Quick Cryptic 56 by Orpheus”

As of midnight UK time, the online link is pointing to last Monday’s puzzle. Nothing new there, but the usual URL fudging doesn’t work and I had to do some hunting around to find my … Read more “Quick Cryptic 46 by Dazzler”

The current link on the Times site is pointing towards last Monday’s puzzle – the correct link should be to: http://feeds.thetimes.co.uk/timescrossword/20140428/141/ The link on the site is now correct. This is Joker’s fourth QC offering, … Read more “Quick Cryptic 36 by Joker”

As at time of writing, the Quick Cryptic link from the Times site is incorrect – you can access it via http://feeds.thetimes.co.uk/timescrossword/20140414/127/ Looking at other Quicky blog posts, it seems as though people are warming … Read more “Quick Cryptic 26 by Grumpy”