Category: Quick Cryptic

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”

Introduction 12:08, with nearly half that time spent on 12 Across. The vast majority of the puzzle went in quite easily, so I imagine I’ll be outpaced by many. Solutions A brief summary of cryptic … Read more “Times Quick Cryptic No 1772 by Mara”

I find the difficulty of this one hard to call. I seemed to struggle throughout yet surprised myself by finishing in 8:53. FOI 1ac and then I worked down the LHS before getting checkers to … Read more “Times Quick Cryptic 1771 by Joker”

At 7 minutes I found this one straightforward but I shall be interested to read how others fared, especially our most recent recruits. Before getting down to business, Jonathan (vinyl1) has asked me to post … Read more “Times Quick Cryptic 1770 by Tracy”

Orpheus is the provider of our Quick Crossword today. I found it not as hard as the last two I blogged, although I suspect a couple of bits of less common vocabulary may lead to … Read more “Times Quick Cryptic No 1769 by Orpheus”

Bit of a chewy one today from Izetti: I did yesterday’s just beforehand in 7 minutes and this in 13. I was held up slightly at the end at 6d/16ac, but the grid was half … Read more “Times Quick Cryptic No 1768 by Izetti”