It is my regular day, not like last and next Wednesday when I’m on holiday relief for jerrywh, so I can’t say ‘it wasn’t really my turn, I was unlucky’… I enjoyed this puzzle, quite … Read more “Times 25888 – no hiding place”
Author: piquet
Quick Cryptic No 130 by Des
A geographical slant on today’s puzzle, good for coffee drinkers. Some write-ins, some needing a little thought and a few worthy of the main cryptic. It took me 12 minutes -partly because my print-out from … Read more “Quick Cryptic No 130 by Des”
Times 25882 – foot off the pedal?
After a series of testing days, especially last week, I found this a much easier romp, all done in 15 minutes with only one word a little obscure but evident from the checkers and anagram. … Read more “Times 25882 – foot off the pedal?”
Quick Cryptic No. 128 by Joker
Nothing obscure here, a good puzzle, only around 3 on the Richter scale, but parsing 12ac, 20ac and 20dn may make some scratch their heads for a while. Across 1 PANORAMA – PANAMA (part of … Read more “Quick Cryptic No. 128 by Joker”
Times 25876 – much to 11ac on
After a poor night’s sleep with one less molar after yesterday’s appointment, this took me a scary 38 minutes and at times I wondered if it was going to be my ‘nemesis blog’, having had … Read more “Times 25876 – much to 11ac on”
Quick Cryptic No 120 by Marty
I think this is my first exercise supplied by Marty. I found it much trickier than Wednesday’s quickie, with several clues worthy of the main puzzle; it took me a good twenty minutes although once … Read more “Quick Cryptic No 120 by Marty”
Quick Cryptic No 118 by Flamande
A pleasant puzzle, two of the definitions are rather vague or loose (3d, 5d) and an unspecified woman makes 20a a rather random exercise. Not much else to add.UPDATE: it appears (see below comments) that … Read more “Quick Cryptic No 118 by Flamande”
Times 25864
Managed ninety per cent of this without too much trouble, then spent another ten minutes on several of the shorter clues, trying to convince myself I had the right options. 29 minutes overall, with 19 … Read more “Times 25864”
Quick Cryptic No 110 by Orpheus
Seven or eight minutes of writing-in to complete this, a tad harder perhaps than my Wednesday blogging duty, with one word rather obscure but gettable from the wordplay. For new solvers, there are several ‘old … Read more “Quick Cryptic No 110 by Orpheus”
Quick Cryptic No 108 by Joker – plenty to drink here.
I hope I’m not upsetting anyone by saying I found this easier than most of the recent quickie puzzles, it was a write-in and took me 7 minutes including printing off (I prefer to solve … Read more “Quick Cryptic No 108 by Joker – plenty to drink here.”