Category: Quick Cryptic

11 minutes, with four of those spent – for no good reason – on 9ac, 7d and correcting 12ac. A fine puzzle with good clues aplenty, my favourite I think being 18ac – many thanks … Read more “Times Quick Cryptic No 1878 by Teazel”

Crack(l)ing puzzle, as we’ve come to expect from this – my favourite – setter. Only the SW corner proved a little reluctant, as well as the long 4dn (cryptic definitions are *still* my Achilles’ heel). … Read more “Times Quick Cryptic 1877 by Oink”

Well, I was one who didn’t find yesterday’s easy and I struggled even more on this – so maybe I’m just having a bad week. I’ll take some slow solves in exchange for our new … Read more “Times Quick Cryptic 1876 by Tracy”

There were quite a few of the sorts of clues that are often regarded as ‘easier’ in this gentle Monday morning stroll. I counted five double definitions and six clues that were either full anagrams … Read more “QC 1875 by Mara”

An interesting mélange today, which some may find tricky. There’s also a fairly obvious Nina (Glossary here if you don’t know what that means): 1ac 6ac, who is 9ac, wrote 13ac and lived in 6dn. … Read more “Quick Cryptic 1874 by Felix”

I was slow solving this, but remained short of the SCC at 19 minutes.  Looking back as I write the blog, I can’t think why I was so slow as nothing seems to be unusually … Read more “Times Quick Cryptic No 1873 by Joker”

Introduction 5 minutes… no, wait, 9:48… grrrrrrrrrrr….. Solutions A brief summary of cryptic crosswords —feel free to skip— : Each clue has at least one “definition”: an unbroken string of words which more-or-less straightforwardly indicates the … Read more “Times Quick Cryptic No 1872 by Wurm”

I didn’t get 1ac at first pass so had to dip into the grid. I ended up chasing all around it until finally finishing in the SE with 22ac. There doesn’t seem to be anything … Read more “Times Quick Cryptic 1871 by Trelawney”

Solving time: 10 minutes. I was very surprised to bring this in on time if only by a whisker as I felt I was struggling throughout the solve. On blogging it I wondered what had … Read more “Times Quick Cryptic 1870 by Izetti”

An enjoyable, neat crossword from Tracy to end the week. I generally find I catch his wavelength quite quickly and I did so again today. After my misjudgement of how diificult others would find it … Read more “Times Quick Cryptic No 1869 by Tracy”