Category: Quick Cryptic

Hello everyone. I hope you are all staying safe. This is going to be a very odd Easter weekend with my elder daughter stranded alone in Portsmouth while the rest of us are at home. … Read more “Times Quick Cryptic No 1589 by Pedro”

A straightforward-enough puzzle, completed a couple of minutes under target. I was slow to see 1ac, for no good reason, and needed all the checkers for 8ac and several checkers for 10ac, but the rest … Read more “Times Quick Cryptic No 1588 by Hurley”

A bit of a harder puzzle than of late, which I solved pretty much bacwards. The left hand side of the grid felt decidedly trickier than the right, and I ended up in the NW … Read more “Times Quick Cryptic 1587 by Tracy”

A quick quickie from Trelawney completed in just 5:35 – probably a PB. I didn’t get 1ac at first pass but a few checkers made it click (and I entered it with a smile). The … Read more “Times Quick Cryptic 1586 by Trelawney”

I think this was the easiest QC I’ve ever done. Apart from one clue. And even that was easy but I just didn’t see it. An example of being hidden in plain sight if ever … Read more “QC 1585 by Teazel – Life During Wartime”

I took ages to get going with this, but it was reasonably starightforward after that. I seemed to do a lot of biffing. I’ll be interested to see how you all got on. 10 minutes … Read more “Quick Cryptic 1584 by Mara”

The Don (Izetti) again takes me over my target to just inside 20 minutes with a nicely challenging QC.  I enjoyed seeing novel devices used to indicate the requirement to drop a letter in the … Read more “Times Quick Cryptic No 1583 by Izetti”

Introduction DNF on account of 8 Across, despite lucky guesses at a few other places. Otherwise a pretty easy puzzle. Stay safe everybody. Solutions Across 1 Start of exciting film, a blockbuster (4) EPIC – … Read more “Times Quick Cryptic No 1582 by Orpheus”

An excellent QC IMHO. Not just a pangram but a well judged level of clueing which kept me on my toes but still allowed me to come within my tangent 10 minutes (by 6 seconds!). … Read more “Times Quick Cryptic 1581 by Breadman”

Time slipped away from me on this one and I needed 14 minutes to complete it, missing my target by 4 minutes. Put it down to the troubled times we are living through, as I … Read more “Times Quick Cryptic 1580 by Joker”