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Author: piquet

Times 28611 – remember all those Greek variants?

Author   piquetPosted on 24th May 2023 at 1:29 AM10 September 2025Categories Daily Cryptic

Another somewhat quirky Wednesday puzzle, with some easy clues and some that were a bit harder to parse.

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Times 28605 – I’ve done the donkey work.

Author   piquetPosted on 17th May 2023 at 1:21 AM10 September 2025Categories Daily Cryptic

Another fun, if somewhat quirky, puzzle for a Wednesday, taking me half an hour and a visit to Wikipedia afterwards.

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Times 28599 – “just one more thing, Ma’am…”

Author   piquetPosted on 10th May 2023 at 1:04 AM10 September 2025Categories Daily Cryptic

I enjoyed finishing this fun puzzle in 15 minutes.

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Times 28593 – something fishy?

Author   piquetPosted on 3rd May 2023 at 1:31 AM10 September 2025Categories Daily Cryptic

Another really enjoyable Wednesday puzzle, taking me about 20 minutes to solve and parse.

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Times 28587 – all is hunky-dory.

Author   piquetPosted on 26th April 2023 at 1:08 AM10 September 2025Categories Daily Cryptic

An enjoyable romp, gentle in nature, with a good helping of anagrams and no hidden word today.

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Times 28581 – have your cake but don’t eat it.

Author   piquetPosted on 19th April 2023 at 12:53 AM10 September 2025Categories Daily Cryptic

I rattled along though this one, filling in from left to right and bottom to top, ending with a few blanks at the top. All in all, a jolly good puzzle, half an hour to do and sort out the parsing.

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Times 28575 – lots of items for debate

Author   piquetPosted on 12th April 2023 at 12:57 AM10 September 2025Categories Daily Cryptic

An entertaining puzzle which took me twenty minutes to fill in all the answers, but with a couple of clues I wasn’t 100% comfortable with when it came to parsing them fully.

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Times 28569 – popcorn and rock.

Author   piquetPosted on 5th April 2023 at 12:59 AM10 September 2025Categories Daily Cryptic

Not the hardest, but for me, one of the most fun Wednesday puzzles for a while.

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Times 28563 – where are my royalties?

Author   piquetPosted on 29th March 2023 at 1:03 AM10 September 2025Categories Daily Cryptic

This took me longer than perhaps it should have done, and I suspected it was hard, but I was distracted.

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Times 28557 – no cheap holidays here.

Author   piquetPosted on 22nd March 2023 at 1:21 AM10 September 2025Categories Daily Cryptic

A medium level puzzle which uses a couple of unusual meanings of words, but nothing that can’t be deduced or guessed.

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