Category: Quick Cryptic

After yesterday’s travails, this was just 10 minutes for me, with a good mix of clue types, middling GK required and a fair bit of tongue-in-cheek humour (but no nina that I can spot).  The … Read more “Times Quick Cryptic No 1863 by Orpheus”

Introduction No time today, as I solved with my five-year-old son, Oliver: his first introduction to the art of cryptic crosswords. He has a much easier time with these than he does with US crosswords … Read more “Times Quick Cryptic No 1862 by Marty”

A quick QC today – 5 minutes for all bar 13ac and LOI 21ac. 6:13 to complete the grid. I enjoyed some interesting anagram indicators and wondered about the hidden indicator at 24ac. COD 4dn. … Read more “Times Quick Cryptic 1861 by Joker”

7 minutes for me. How did you all get on? As usual definitions are underlined in bold italics, {deletions and substitutions are in curly brackets} and [anagrinds, containment, reversal and other indicators in square ones]. … Read more “Times Quick Cryptic 1860 by Tracy”

A fairly gentle quick crossword, I think, from Wurm today to ease us into the weekend, although there are a couple of tricks that might catch some. Lots of anagram practice here, with an anagram … Read more “Times Quick Cryptic 1859 by Wurm”

Quite an inventive puzzle today from Teazel. Of similar difficulty to yesterday’s, I found, coming in close to 8 minutes for both. It took me a while to get going, failing on the first four … Read more “Times Quick Cryptic No 1858 by Teazel”

I had a feeling I’d get hung up at the end, which turned out to be the case, because each clue seemed to hold out until the moment before I moved on to the next. … Read more “Times Quick Cryptic 1857 by Hurley”

Quite a tough work out from Breadman today which took 11 minutes. I found the word play quite tricky in parts (e.g. 13dn), had trouble with the font at 21ac and needed all the checkers … Read more “Times Quick Cryptic 1856 by Breadman”

A good variety of clues here including the use of quite a few anagrams although I think only one was an anagram pure and simple. All the others were elements of larger constructions. Many thanks … Read more “QC 1855 by Mara”

I’d say this is on the easire end of the scale. I can’t give you a time because I was interrupted but I reckon 7 minutes or so. Lots of anagrams. Favourite clue probably 20dn … Read more “Quick Cryptic 1854 by Felix”