Category: Quick Cryptic

Introduction 9:47. Definitely some chewy bits here, but my kids didn’t help! There’s a bit of loose wordplay, for my tastes, but I didn’t mind. Solutions A brief summary of cryptic crosswords —feel free to … Read more “Times Quick Cryptic No 1782 by Teazel”

I found this a little tricky and completed in just under 11 minutes. 1dn had me torn between two potential answers (only one valid) and LOI 16dn took some staring at to see an animal … Read more “Times Quick Cryptic 1781 by Tracy”

Solving time: 9 minutes. I think this is all accessible to newbies, but I have got that wrong many times in the past. As usual definitions are underlined in bold italics, {deletions and substitutions are … Read more “Times Quick Cryptic 1780 by Breadman”

A Happy New Year to all! To usher in the new year of Quick Cryptic crosswords we have our old friend Izetti.  An entertaining puzzle with smooth surfaces as we have come to expect. One … Read more “Times Quick Cryptic No 1779 by Izetti”

I had one of those frustrating solves – not often a fault of the setter – where you rattle through most of it before getting stuck on the last one or two clues: here I … Read more “Times Quick Cryptic No 1778 by Orpheus”

A good training ground QC with a nearly complete range of clue types and very little esoteric GK. 21ac was my LOI, having seen the legendary bird round here before, but taking a while to … Read more “Times Quick Cryptic 1777 by Hurley”

I found today’s more difficult than yesterday but as many found yesterday’s quite hard maybe the reverse will hold true today.I found this chock full of clever clues which I’ve enjoyed untangling for the blog. … Read more “Times Quick Cryptic 1776 by Breadman”

Not much time to say anything this week what with recovering after the hollowed out Christmas which I hope you all managed to enjoy as well as you could in the circumstances. FOI was the … Read more “QC 1775 by Trelawney”

Seasons greetings one and all. So there’s a fairly obvious theme here, and also some obscure vocabulary. I imagine the latter is there so that the former can be crowbarred in. But wordplay is fairly easy overall, … Read more “Eleven Days of Christmas – QC 1774 by Noel”

An approachable QC from Pedro that took me 15 minutes exactly to complete and parse, but which contains nothing to frighten the reindeer!  My FOI was COPY, LOI was PIOUS, with WOD QUERULOUS and COD … Read more “Times Quick Cryptic No 1773 by Pedro”