Category: Quick Cryptic

The curse of the last clue struck again, and I gave up and clicked on the answer after a bit of an impatient stare at 17d. There’s little excuse for this when the clock is … Read more “Times Quick Cryptic No 1978 by Pedro”

I reckon your experience of today’s puzzle will depend on whether you solved the four longest answers quickly, or not. I’m in the latter camp, with 1ac my LOI. Overall, this is a pretty grown … Read more “Times Quick Cryptic 1977 by Breadman”

I didn’t find anything too hard in here and finished inside 9 minutes. A few got me looking the wrong way – especially LOI 23ac and, with a sprinkling of double definitions, this was a … Read more “Times Quick Cryptic 1976 by Oink”

From where I am sitting this was slightly more difficult than my last puzzle two weeks ago and quite a bit less difficult than my puzzle four weeks ago. But looking through it after the … Read more “QC 1975 by Orpheus”

Fairly straightforward offering from Hurley today, with what seems like an inordinate number of double definitions, as well as a quadruple which is a very rare bird. 6 minutes for me, favourite clue has to … Read more “Quick Cryptic 1974 by Hurley”

This was a bit of a struggle in places, but not enough to take me past my 15m target.  The two long answers ending in …MONIOUS came to me fairly easily, which helped, but I … Read more “Times quick Cryptic No 1973 by Joker”

Introduction Watch my solve here: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1162086431 . 4:38, which means there was a lot of biffing. I’m looking forward to figuring out what some of the wordplay was! General remarks A brief summary of cryptic crosswords … Read more “Times Quick Cryptic No 1972 by Wurm”

A pleasant romp through QC land with Tracy today finished just inside 9 minutes. Definitions are underlined. Across 1 Rescue brute, grabbing end of tail (7) SALVAGE – brute (SAVAGE) holding tai(L). 5 Band‘s mega … Read more “Times Quick Cryptic 1971 by Tracy”

Solving time: 7 minutes. I found this one easy. I hope you did too. As usual definitions are underlined in bold italics, {deletions and substitutions are in curly brackets} and [anagrinds, containment, reversal and other … Read more “Times Quick Cryptic 1970 by Mara”

A gentle end to the week compared to the last couple of days (and my last couple of Fridays) with this Quick Cryptic from Breadman. It is a curious grid with no answers more than … Read more “Times Quick Cryptic No 1969 by Breadman”