Category: Quick Cryptic

Overall I didn’t find this difficult but there are a few words or meanings that will not be familiar to all.

An enjoyable Friday QC from Trelawney today. No time recorded but I think it was about average for me. Some great clues and entertaining surfaces. I liked 8A, 9D and 18D, but COD to the clever 2D. Thank-you Trelawney! How did you all get on?

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

Smooth solve, perhaps a touch on the gentle side of average difficulty.

A tricky one, with several slightly unusual words in both the clues and answers.

I found this fairly straightforward, but in retrospect there are a few devices that might be more at home in the 15×15.

Hi all.  I’m a little bleary after a sociable weekend in York, so will be brief today.  No dramas to report, no time notably slow or fast, just another good Quick Cryptic.  Thanks Breadman!

Well that didn’t put up much of a fight.

As soon as I saw the Setter’s name, I was on the lookout for a theme or Nina, and I wasn’t disappointed.

Not my finest effort. Most of this puzzle was quite easy, but there were a few clues in the upper-left which completely stymied me!

Hi everyone.  While Chris is busy grandson sitting, I am the first of those sitting in for him here.

A puzzle to phone a friend about?  I ask because a cockney reference and no less than three dogs (two of them eating) made me think of dog and bone.  I was almost tempted to take inspiration from Astro_Nowt and pen some suitable lines, but you are spared my doggerel!