Category: Quick Cryptic

Happy New Year to one and all, and we have Quick Cryptic 2300 to mark the first day of 2023.

Our last Times Quick Cryptic of 2022 is provided by Teazel. I found it very entertaining, if a little on the tricky side. Thank-you Teazel. How did you all get on?

Fortnightly Weekend Quick Cryptic. This time it is Sawbill’s turn to provide the extra weekend entertainment. You can find the latest crossword here.

Fun and quirky puzzle, pitched a bit on the trickier side, with a nice Nina to boot.

Nestled in the lull between Christmas and New Year, I found that a couple of clues in today’s offering from Breadman required a little extra brainpower to parse. How did you get on?

My first blog, I took some notes on paper, hence don’t have a time, but maybe 19 mins. A few tricky misdirects from Orpheus slowed me down.

Hello, and happy Boxing Day.  (Kitties like boxes!)

The right hand side of this puzzle went very smoothly for me, but the left took rather longer, bringing the whole a little past my average time.  My last in was 12a.  18a stood out for its surface and so is my pick of today’s clues.  Thanks Izetti!

Anagrams galore and ellipses too

A typically neat and succinct puzzle from Mara…

A typically challenging offering from Joker that took me a little over my target time, but everything seems fair.

Seasons greetings to you all and to Hurley who provided a good challenge – one which I completed in a whisker under ten minutes. Hitting target for my final (scheduled) blog was most satisfying.