Author: rolytoly

You know you’ve competed in a classy pub quiz when your ability to apple bob in an outsize bucket nets your team enough points to win, and you wake up in your clothes with a … Read more “Times Quick Cryptic No 1468 by Pedro”

An enjoyable, average-difficulty puzzle from Hurley. I usually like to try the across clues first, which seemed like a slight handicap today, what with that nice big 7d on the far left – without it … Read more “Times Quick Cryptic No 1458 by Hurley”

Tricky enough today from Corelli, with quite a lot of misdirection and unyielding definitions that needed checkers to unravel. Oh, and an impressively interwoven Hamlet theme running throughout – I count a dozen characters directly … Read more “Times Quick Cryptic No 1448 by Corelli”

I was creeping close to my target, so didn’t hang around to think more about 1d and 18d, and was marginally surprised not to see the unlucky sign for a change. 1d is news to … Read more “Times Quick Cryptic No 1438 by Orpheus”

Tricky enough today from Mara. I only had five of the acrosses on a first read over (8,9,10,17,19), and would have been slower than the 11-and-a-half minutes it took me to DNF had it not … Read more “Times Quick Cryptic No 1428 by Mara”

Another tricky enough QC today – I did the last three QCs in a row and took pretty much bang on 15, 9 and 12 minutes for Tue/Wed/today. So halfway between tricky and average by … Read more “Times Quick Cryptic No 1418 by Izetti”

I found this a bit on the trickier side from Joker today. I had to spend a bit of time working out the long 6d before I could get 10ac and the easy enough 4ac, … Read more “Times Quick Cryptic No 1408 by Joker”

I found this easier than yesterday’s, which I did just beforehand, but I was aware of that nice experience, notable by its rarity, where for a good number of the clues the first thing that … Read more “Times Quick Cryptic No 1398 by Tracy”

Gentle enough puzzle, perhaps, but that didn’t stop me incorrectly guessing the girl at 24ac and giving 6d less than a minute’s consideration before giving up and sticking in the only remotely plausible answer that … Read more “Times Quick Cryptic No 1393 by Orpheus”

Good quality puzzle from Tracy, somewhere around the average difficulty mark. I finished a few seconds under my target with a few unparsed. Not too much in the way of obscurity, but there are a … Read more “Times Quick Cryptic No 1378 by Tracy”