Author: rolytoly

I found this very tough today. Or at least, I made very heavy weather of it – I threw in the towel at the 25 minute mark with 1d and 9ac unanswered, which is my … Read more “Times Quick Cryptic No 898 by Teazel”

Amid the novelty of the exciting new website, this is Howzat’s fourth puzzle since first appearing at the start of the year. Very nice it was too! I had a mere two mistakes at the … Read more “Times Quick Cryptic No 888 by Howzat”

A very good puzzle from Hurley, I thought. Of middling difficulty (probably): I would have come in about a minute under my target had there ever existed an artist called “Lision”, but it took me … Read more “Times Quick Cryptic No 878 by Hurley”

A gentle enough offering from Orpheus today, if my time of seven-and-a-half minutes is anything to go by. One wrong, of course, but I’d say the “Unlucky!” sign was quite accurate on this occasion (as … Read more “Times Quick Cryptic No 868 by Orpheus”

Towards the gentler end of things from Rongo today, with the long anagrams at 1ac/1d opening things up nicely. I came in a bit under the 9 minute mark, almost to the second the same … Read more “Times Quick Cryptic No 858 by Rongo”

A quick, and possibly unreliable, search shows this to be only Juno’s fourth puzzle – the previous one being QC 430, all the way back in November 2015. On that occasion, blogged by Jack, there … Read more “Times Quick Cryptic No 848 by Juno”

A lovely puzzle from Teazel today, with pretty much every clue reading perfectly as a standalone sentence, and there were some lovely images of biased brunettes and crying schoolboys and short-skirted servants and the like. … Read more “Times Quick Cryptic No 838 by Teazel”

Quite a tricky one today, I thought. All done bar four after 12 minutes, with the stubborn ones taking me right up to the 20 minute mark. 10ac and 17ac gave way before too long … Read more “Times Quick Cryptic No 828 by Joker”

A shade harder than average, I’d say, taking me 15 minutes (with one wrong). A couple of bits of obscurity, for me anyway, with 17d and 22ac going in with a shrug: the first I’ve … Read more “Times Quick Cryptic No 818 by Tracy”

I really enjoyed this – there lots of lovely clues on show today. I particularly liked the intriguing cryptic definition at 1d and the light bit of black humour at 1ac – got a chuckle … Read more “Times Quick Cryptic No 808 by Teazel”