This seems to me to be a notch more difficult than Wednesday’s quickie, it’s a good work-out using some frequently occurring crossword clue-bits, as we shall see. Across 1 INTENDED – At home = IN, … Read more “Quick Cryptic No. 70 by Orpheus – European flavour with regular ingredients”
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Quick Cryptic No. 68 by Rongo
I enjoyed this puzzle, a mix of simple and moderately tricky clues, including (as usual) a few where the likely answer springs to mind before the derivation is worked out. Across 1 MUSIC – MC … Read more “Quick Cryptic No. 68 by Rongo”
Times Cryptic 25804 – orchidologists and priest-ologists required
Under pressure to blog at a reasonable hour, after an early appointment elsewhere, this took me 32 minutes and required a couple of visits to Wiki to check an unknown orchid and a simple word … Read more “Times Cryptic 25804 – orchidologists and priest-ologists required”
Quick Cryptic No. 60. by Hurley
This took me twelve minutes on a tablet (the Android Times keyboard is working now), but it wasn’t a straight top-to-bottom write-in, I had to go back or wait for checkers a few times. Definitely … Read more “Quick Cryptic No. 60. by Hurley”
Quick Cryptic No. 58, by Izetti – it’s all Greek to me
An interesting mix of simple write-in clues and some more obscure ones, especially the two which require a smattering of biology and Greek architecture knowledge to avoid guessing from the checking letters. I think fifteen … Read more “Quick Cryptic No. 58, by Izetti – it’s all Greek to me”
TIMES 25796 – 12 ac, 5 dn, and that’s just the weather.
Raining properly this morning in SW France, it’s not a Bank Holiday but it’s Roland Garros of course, so I passed on the dog walking to make a prompt start on my virgin grown-up crossword … Read more “TIMES 25796 – 12 ac, 5 dn, and that’s just the weather.”
Quick Cryptic No.50 by Felix
This took me 10 minutes on my Android tablet (the Times pop-up keyboard works in Firefox for Android, I have discovered, but not in the default browser). Several of the clues were not instant write-ins … Read more “Quick Cryptic No.50 by Felix”
Quick Cryptic No. 48 – by JOKER. No time for tablets.
Stepping into the breach for one of our regular team, I took my Android tablet to bed hoping to make an early start. However the Times coding doesn’t like my Android browser and mis-produced some … Read more “Quick Cryptic No. 48 – by JOKER. No time for tablets.”
Quick Cryptic No. 40 by Grumpy
I seem to be meeting Grumpy more often than not on Fridays now. This one seems to be continuing the trend of increasing difficulty for the Quickies, I hope the debutantes are keeping up!It’s a … Read more “Quick Cryptic No. 40 by Grumpy”
Times Quick Cryptic No. 30 by Orpheus
To me this seemed a lot easier than some of the other recent QCs, to the point where some answers are hardly cryptic at all. Nevertheless there is a good mixture of clueing methods for … Read more “Times Quick Cryptic No. 30 by Orpheus”