Category: Quick Cryptic

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”

I took quite a bit longer than usual to complete this QC finishing in just under 7 minutes, but we’ve had quite a few head-scratchers already over the last 2 weeks, haven’t we?  I had … Read more “Times Quick Cryptic No 1579 by Hurley”

I found this quite tough, and fared very similarly to yesterday’s, which is to say a DNF around the 17 minute mark, all following a bruising hour with yesterday’s 15x. I was feeling my enthusiasm … Read more “Times Quick Cryptic No 1578 by Izetti”

Very slow for me – partly because I’m a little out of practice lately, but also due to quite a lot of those crypticky sideways definitions that I’ve always been slow to twig. I probably … Read more “Times Quick Cryptic 1577 by Teazel”

A lot to enjoy in this offering from Felix – particularly the acrosses in the bottom half. Nothing proved too tricky as I was all complete except for 9ac and 1dn in about 7 minutes. … Read more “Times Quick Cryptic 1576 by Felix”

Obviously there is so much happening at the moment that I don’t have much time for a preamble. This was a medium difficulty puzzle and I can’t say much more than that as my eyeseight … Read more “QC1575 by Orpheus”

Fairly straighforward, though 16a and 7d might cause difficulty. just over 8 minutes for me Across 1 Thin tree chopped up, a number being bad (8) THIRTEEN – anagram (‘chopped up’) of THIN TREE 5 … Read more “Quick Cryptic 1574 by Joker”