Category: Quick Cryptic

So here we go for the much anticipated, it felt like it would never arrive, election day!  I hope that, as for Christmas, you get what you wished for. This lovely puzzle from Tracy shouldn’t … Read more “Times Quick Cryptic No 1503 by Tracy”

Introduction I was putting my older son to bed while trying this one, so I guess I can blame my poor performance on that, but the truth is that this puzzle really stumped me. I … Read more “Times Quick Cryptic No 1502 by Orpheus”

I can’t give a time as I’d just crept to the 10 minute mark with 1ac, 5ac, 11dn and 21ac yet to complete when I was interrupted. I came back to find the timer at … Read more “Times Quick Cryptic 1501 by Hurley”

My solving time was 10 minutes. A rare appearance by Juno marks Quick Cryptic 1500 and is only her (?) 9th puzzle to date*. There is a number-related Nina which I shan’t reveal until the very end of … Read more “Times Quick Cryptic 1500 by Juno”

A neat and entertaining Quick Crossword to end the week from Rongo with a cheeky cryptic device that had me chuckling, although some may consider it groan-worthy. Elsewhere some fine surfaces and, I think, generally … Read more “Times Quick Cryptic No 1499 by Rongo – I love to go a vandering….”

On the gentle side today from Oink. A fairly straight solve, although a shoddy bit of spelling at 6d returned the Unlucky! sign a bit after the six minute mark. That’s about as quick as … Read more “Times Quick Cryptic No 1498 by Oink”

I finished this in an average time, but only by leaving some of the clues unparsed until the end. There are some lovely neat clues amongst a few rather clunky ones, and my COD goes … Read more “Times Quick Cryptic 1497 by Pedro”

This was all going well and would have finished inside 10 minutes had it not been for 8dn. I took an extra minute or so to realise what was happening and then, as ever, it … Read more “Times Quick Cryptic 1496 by Mara”

Nothing here to break anyone out in a cold sweat. Some straightforward anagrams, obvious cryptic definitions and double definitions make up the main framework and there are no other startling devices to write home (or … Read more “QC 1495 by Izetti”

A pleasant 6-minute solve for me. Plenty of anagrams, a couple of double definitions, and a very nice triple, too which you don’t see often in the QC. I was more thrown by the few that were … Read more “Quick Cryptic 1494 by Hurley”