Category: Quick Cryptic

A chewy enough puzzle from Izetti, taking me a bit over 12 minutes to get the Unlucky! sign: I failed on my LOI 7d, and even stared dutifully for another couple of minutes before clicking … Read more “Times Quick Cryptic No 2038 by Izetti”

An abundance of familiar crossword vocabulary, and a couple of real chestnuts, gave me enough of a start in all corners. Only 13ac and 4dn caused any head-scratching; the former to check my spelling, and … Read more “Times Quick Cryptic 2037 by Trelawney”

A tough ask from Jalna with the odd unknown definition and plenty of knotted parsing which took me 14 minutes to unravel. Enjoyed the challenge though! I suppose you’ll now let me know that you … Read more “Times Quick Cryptic 2036 by Jalna”

Thank you to Joker for what I found to be a medium-difficulty QC. But then I am just recovering from the excesses of the last couple of days (just packed my sister and family back … Read more “QC 2035 by Joker”

Predictably Christmas-themed and very gentle. 16dn – nice of Noel to include the city I would be visiting next week if it weren’t for all the hysterical politicians. 4 minutes for me. Across 1 Crazy solvers! … Read more “Quick Cryptic 2034 by Noel”

Just inside target at near to 15 minutes, with a couple of pieces of esoteric general knowledge, and some parsing issues to get to grips with.  This was a fine QC from Teazel, with some … Read more “Times Quick Cryptic No 2033 by Teazel”

Introduction 5:29, but I needed to check on the unknown 5 Down. A gentle affair which befitted my post-booster exhaustion. Solutions Across 1   Unsuitable environment for Republican poet (4)BARD = BAD around R 4 … Read more “Times Quick Cryptic 2032 by Orpheus”

A gentle one from Tracy today which seemed something of a relief after last week. Zoomed through in 8:30 so I expect the value of K today to be very small. The presence of a … Read more “Times Quick Cryptic 2031 by Tracy”

Solving time: 10 minutes. Distracted a little by what I take to be an error in the clue at 20ac. As usual definitions are underlined in bold italics, {deletions and substitutions are in curly brackets} … Read more “Times Quick Cryptic 2030 by Wurm”

Today I got my second Mara Quick Crossword in a row to blog. It’s another good one, and I enjoyed savouring the clues as I compiled the blog. We are treated to a rare reverse … Read more “Times Quick Cryptic No 2029 by Mara”