Category: Quick Cryptic

An excellent puzzle with a clever theme or NINA from Corelli, who traditionally gives us a theme of one sort or another.  Just in case you want to look for it yourself, I won’t give … Read more “Times Quick Cryptic No 1843 by Corelli”

Introduction 5:43. Thought I was on track for a really fast time, as most of these clues were straightforward. So I found it rather delightful when I got slowed down towards the end for some … Read more “Times Quick Cryptic No 1842 by Orpheus”

What a difference a week makes – the weather, the vaccination rate, the relative freedoms and a really Q C. 2 seconds under 6 minutes for this one to fly by more or less top … Read more “Times Quick Cryptic 1841 by Breadman”

Solving time: 7 minutes. This seemed mostly straightforward, give or take a clue or two, so I hope our newer solvers will be happy with it, but don’t be downhearted if you struggled, we’re here … Read more “Times Quick Cryptic 1840 by Teazel”

A typically smooth but testing Quick Cryptic from Don today. He certainly kept me on my toes with one or two tricky clues that needed all my experience to navigate. Never one to just follow … Read more “Times Quick Cryptic No 1839 by Izetti”

This looks like quite a gentle solve in hindsight that I didn’t make especially light work of, coming in a minute-or-so under target. No particular hold-ups, although I was slow to unravel the anagram at … Read more “Times Quick Cryptic No 1838 by Hurley”

A similar story to yesterday, for me, in which most of the answers flew in before I got stuck on some head-scratchers. I thought 15dn was brilliant – it had me almost panicking when I … Read more “Times Quick Cryptic 1837 by Wurm”

No name as yet for the setter so I can’t congratulate them on beating me all ends up [on edit – thanks to jackkt for news from the tree-ware version of the setter’s name]. Was … Read more “Times Quick Cryptic 1836 by Tracy”

I think this is the third puzzle in a row that I have blogged that has had a very low anagram hit rate. I think I got as far as 5D before the first one … Read more “QC 1835 by Joker”

I took a while getting going with this, and I’m going to guess that a lot of people will find it difficult. Some good clues, but some of the devices are a little advanced for … Read more “Quick Cryptic 1834 by Felix”