Category: Quick Cryptic

Towards the easier side of things today from Hurley, with a number of the clues pointing fairly unambiguously to the answer. A few seconds spent at the end on 9d and 17ac, but more because … Read more “Times Quick Cryptic No 2118 by Hurley”

Lured into a false sense of security by Mara today. The NW corner went in smoothly and then I had to pick them off all over the place. Good fun though. Definitions underlined. Across 1 … Read more “Times Quick Cryptic 2117 by Mara”

Having failed to get anywhere in the NW, I started slowly in the NE and worked clockwise round the grid speeding up as I went. Coming home in 7:39 seems remarkable having had such a … Read more “Times Quick Cryptic 2116 by Joker”

Hello, I hope you had a happy Easter. This was perfectly mid-range for difficulty by my watch, and it felt that way too.  Nothing to add here, but as it’s a bank holiday today I … Read more “Times Quick Cryptic 2115 by Teazel”

Well, well. After a long run of easy ones to blog, I think a lot pf people are going to find this a bit of a challenge. I could not parse 23ac and I was on … Read more “Quick Cryptic 2114 by Rongo”

Well, I found this a very interesting puzzle from Breadman.  My solving time of 11 minutes suggests that it was easier than average, but I think some of the parsing was tricky, particularly in the … Read more “Times Quick Cryptic No 2113 by Breadman”

Introduction 13:46. I got garden-pathed on 1 Down and barely recovered. I’m sorry I haven’t been around much as of late. Last fall I enrolled (or ‘enroled’, as you might have it) in a master’s … Read more “Times Quick Cryptic No 2112 by Orpheus”

I feel like I made a real pig’s ear of this. I finished in 14 minutes after struggling in the NW and then, inexplicably, unable to see LOI 9dn 9ac for an age. I’ll put … Read more “Times Quick Cryptic 2111 by Oink”

Solving time: 13 minutes. I struggled with 7 & 12ac for some reason, and so missed my target 10 minutes. As usual definitions are underlined in bold italics, {deletions and substitutions are in curly brackets} … Read more “Times Quick Cryptic 2110 by Hurley”

Oo! I’ve got an Alfie crossword to blog. As we all know by now (I hope) that should mean we have something alphabetical in the solution… and indeed we do. Click on the link below … Read more “Times Quick Cryptic No 2109 by Alfie”