Category: Quick Cryptic

A medium difficulty puzzle from Breadman to finish the week, I feel, taking me just under my average time. Some eclectic general knowledge needed, although nothing too obscure – A famous boxer, Baltic geography, a … Read more “Times Quick Cryptic No 1539 by Breadman”

A bit on the gentler side today from Tracy: I came in about a minute under my target after finishing off with a slightly sluggish LH side and then taking a minute to locate the … Read more “Times Quick Cryptic No 1538 by Tracy”

A middling difficulty excursion that has only a few unusual bits. But they’re mixed in with a very healthy number of simpler ones, and they’re all clued quite transparently. If you asked my five years … Read more “Times Quick Cryptic 1537 by Hurley”

I’m just acting as postman on this one blogged by Chris: An eminently ‘do-able’ QC which should have been quicker but I got held up with the many anagrams. 9 minutes still means on the … Read more “Times Quick Cryptic 1536 by Oink (blog by Chris)”

I think that I found this about the most enjoyable QC that I have ever blogged. I did find it very straightforward, and it could nearly have been a PB, but as I have mentioned … Read more “QC 1535 by Joker”

I am posting this as an emergency blog.  I needed 19 minutes having been stuck on 16dn and 22ac. As usual definitions are underlined in bold italics, {deletions and substitutions are in curly brackets} and … Read more “Times Quick Cryptic 1534 by Grumpy”

Well, there is plenty of meat on the bones of this fine offering from Felix, where he has made good use of an unusual grid to tax us this morning.  My time was close on … Read more “Times Quick Cryptic No 1533 by Felix”

Introduction Lovely puzzle, which I had finished under 7 minutes, but botched the last clue at 15 Across, so DNF for me. Solutions Across 1 Where strikers are lined up to fight after game (8) … Read more “Times Quick Cryptic No 1532 by Teazel”

I made heavy weather of this, probably down to the anagrams, and took13 minutes. I hope it’s just me as, on review, I can’t seewhy I got held up. I’ve had a bit of a … Read more “Times Quick Cryptic 1531 by Mara”

Solving time: 7 minutes. Quite a gentle offering from Izetti today, I thought, although I was helped by the long answer at 1ac which was a write-in for me and got things off to a … Read more “Times Quick Cryptic 1530 by Izetti”