Category: Quick Cryptic

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”

This was a relatively easy solve (12 minutes for me) but with a couple of pieces of chewy parsing along the way.  Not too much esoteric general knowledge required, although 11a, 1d, 4d may cause … Read more “Times Quick Cryptic No 1853 by Pedro”

Introduction 5:58, with a minute spent on my last one in (2 Down). Solutions A brief summary of cryptic crosswords —feel free to skip— : Each clue has at least one “definition”: an unbroken string of … Read more “Times Quick Cryptic No 1852 by Jalna”

I found this quite tricky and finished just outside target of 10 minutes. There’s a rash of double definitions and anagrams to enjoy. Definitions are underlined. Across 1 Hit second vehicle (6) STRUCK – second … Read more “Times Quick Ctyptic 1851 by Joker”

I completed all but 15ac within 7 minutes but then needed another 2 minutes, eventually resorting to an alphabet trawl, to come up with the answer. FOOTNOTE: I recommend that anyone who has their sights … Read more “Times Quick Cryptic 1850 by Oink”

At the time of writing the setter of this puzzle wasn’t declared in the online version, but jackkt tells us in the comments it is Tracy. I thought it on the whole a very pleasant, … Read more “Times Quick Cryptic No 1849 by Tracy”