Category: Quick Cryptic

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”

For some unaccountable reason, this puzzle took me a minute over target at 16 minutes.  Looking back on it as I blog it, it appears very easy and straightforward!  1a occurred to me immediately on … Read more “Times Quick Cryptic No 1833 by Teazel”

Introduction 5:22. Plenty of anagrams (and not very long or obscure ones) made this a very accessible puzzle for me. Solutions A brief summary of cryptic crosswords —feel free to skip— : Each clue has … Read more “Times Quick Cryptic No 1832 by Mara”

No time to declare as I was interrupted but I think this will prove to be on the harder side. There’s the odd philosopher and Dickensian character to deal with as well as some tricky-ish … Read more “Times Quick Cryptic 1831 by Orpheus”

My solving time was 6 minutes so clearly I found this easy, which is not to suggest that everyone will or should. Nor should anyone be downhearted if they take a lot longer or don’t … Read more “Times Quick Cryptic 1830 by Oink”

A neat and friendly Quick Crossword from Tracy today to end the week. 4A was my first one in and it went fairly smoothly for me after that, finishing, appropriately with 1D  in just a … Read more “Times Quick Cryptic No 1829 by Tracy”