Author: plusjeremy

A fine puzzle, but a ghastly solve — the perfect storm of difficulty and distraction: scrawling in answers to a very (~30%) UK-centric puzzle and simultaneously trying to prevent my two-year-old from burning the house … Read more “Times Quick Cryptic No 1132 by Teazel”

Masterful. After some recent puzzles, I was bracing myself for a real doozy. On the contrary, I found this to be relatively straightforward — but the best kind of straightforward, where the surface readings are … Read more “Times Quick Cryptic No 1122 by Flamande”

I zipped through most of this puzzle in about 10 minutes, but then, by gum, the trouble begun!  The lower-right corner got me.  I used my phone to look up synonyms for ‘tramp’, then looked … Read more “Times Quick Cryptic No 1112 by Orpheus”

Greetings from your newest blogger, Jeremy, in New York City.  I’m a stay-at-home dad of one boy (soon to be two), and occasionally a math teacher, pianist, conductor, and one-fourth of a barbershop quartet. My puzzle backstory:  I … Read more “Times Quick Cryptic No 1102 by Tracy”