Author: mohn2

I found this one fairly straightforward, with only 15D registering on my might-not-be-familiar-to-all radar. A selection of good surfaces today, though the only biscuits I can think of that occasionally come in blue (12A) are … Read more “Quick Cryptic 615 by Teazel”

I must confess to rather a lot of biffing in this puzzle, though obviously having to write a blog for it meant that the parsing had to be faced at some point. A couple of … Read more “Quick Cryptic 605 by Rongo”

I found this one quite tricky, though in hindsight there’s nothing particularly complicated in it and the grid is friendly enough, with long answers on the top and left sides giving a bunch of helpful … Read more “Quick Cryptic 595 by Pedro”

A gentle start to the week, I think, with no recondite vocabulary or complex constructions. No doubt solvers will be grateful to have an all-correct under their belts as a confidence booster for the stiffer … Read more “Quick Cryptic 585 by Mara”

Only Marty’s eighth Quicky offering by my reckoning, and I found this one quite tricky – though part of that was because I managed to put in a wrong answer for 10A that made my … Read more “Quick Cryptic 575 by Marty”

I thought this was a straightforward puzzle that neither hit the heights nor plumbed the depths of either difficulty or enjoyment. This was no doubt because Teazel didn’t want to steal Middlesbrough’s thunder, what with … Read more “Quick Cryptic 565 by Teazel”

I seem to blog an inordinate number of puzzles where hyphens are conspicuous by their presence/absence and today’s crossword doesn’t disappoint in that regard, however I’m getting sufficiently used to such shenanigans that I wasn’t … Read more “Quick Cryptic 555 by Orpheus”