Category: Quick Cryptic

One of those gratifying puzzles that has the feeling of being quite tricky but all goes in smoothly: I came in at 6.35, about a minute quicker than yesterday, helped along by getting all but … Read more “Times Quick Cryptic No 2068 by Felix”

A sting in the tail of this one, as I missed the enumeration of 8ac and was convinced it would end -CIAN, and was flummuxod by the parsing of 24ac. All green in the end, … Read more “Times Quick Cryptic 2067 by Breadman”

8 minutes for a quick QC. Oink makes an appearance or two in this pleasant and enjoyable solve. Definitions are underlined. Across 1 A mistake, whichever way you look at it (4) BOOB – a … Read more “Times Quick Cryptic 2066 by Oink”

I don’t think I was fully on my game here as I seem to remember quite a few blank spaces before getting my FOI which I think was 15A. Once the answers started going in … Read more “QC 2065 by Mara”

I found this a bit odd. Hard to get going, even though 1 ac is pretty obvious in hindsight. I’ve got issues with some of the clues as detailed below, and some might find this tricky as … Read more “Quick Cryptic 2064 by Teazel”

Some of the parsing here didn’t get finally clarified until I came to write the blog (inc. 1, 3, 4 and 7d), and I don’t have an accurate time as I was interrupted several times … Read more “Times Quick Cryptic No 2063 by Wurm”

Introduction 3:49, which continues a bizarre streak of fast times for me (my average solving time for the Quick Cryptic is about 7 1/2 minutes). These went in about as fast as I could type … Read more “Times Quick Cryptic 2062 by Tracy”

After a slow start, I sped up considerably and had completed all bar 5dn in 8 minutes. The LOI bug then struck me down and I didn’t yield to treatment for 1.5 minutes. Having now … Read more “Times Quick Cryptic 2061 by Izetti”

Solving time: 9 minutes. I found some of this quite tricky. As usual definitions are underlined in bold italics, {deletions and substitutions are in curly brackets} and [anagrinds, containment, reversal and other indicators in square … Read more “Times Quick Cryptic 2060 by Joker”

When I saw Alfie’s name at the top of today’s crossword I thought, “We could be in for some alphabetical fun here”… and I wasn’t disappointed. You shouldn’t have found it difficult to see the … Read more “Times Quick Cryptic No 2059 by Alfie”