Category: Quick Cryptic

My first Jalna Quick Crossword to blog today, and just the second from this new setter after his/her debut on 20th August. Many found that one tough and there are a few tricky clues here … Read more “Times Quick Cryptic No 1469 by Jalna”

You know you’ve competed in a classy pub quiz when your ability to apple bob in an outsize bucket nets your team enough points to win, and you wake up in your clothes with a … Read more “Times Quick Cryptic No 1468 by Pedro”

Nothing too scary here. Plenty of footholds and generous clueing meant I was only held up at the very end by 17ac, which I did not know and took ages to switch gears from the … Read more “Times Quick Cryptic 1467 by Oink”

This QC was so well devised that it led me the wrong way around most of the clues. I gave up on any thought of timings and settled down to work through and enjoy the … Read more “Times Quick Cryptic 1466 by Joker”

There will be jubilation in certain quarters when I say that I honestly have no time to say anything this week except: 1. Medium difficulty2. FOI: 5A3. LOI: 13A4. COD: 1A Many thanks to Hurley … Read more “QC 1465 by Hurley”

Well, I started badly by solving yesterday’s by mistake, then wondering why Therotter had already blogged it and 30+ people had already commented on it. The perils of leaving browser windows open. Anyway, this was … Read more “Quick Cryptic 1464 by Tracy”

I predict that some will have some difficulties with this offering from Juno.  For the second time this week this took me the wrong side of 20 minutes, 5 over my target, at least partly … Read more “Times Quick Cryptic No 1463 by Juno”

Introduction Hats off to any puzzle that makes me take 23 minutes to finish. I was well-stymied in the upper-right while trying to take care of kiddos… my head wasn’t really in the game! Most … Read more “Times Quick Cryptic No 1462 by Mara”

Hmph! For me, the ‘Q’ in this one stood for Quite hard and I felt lucky to come in on 14 minutes. The odd tea and haircut I could have lived with, but what was … Read more “Times Quick Cryptic 1461 by Breadman”

Solving time: 10 minutes but I needed at least 1 minute to find a clue that I could solve at first glance. Once I had got going it all fell into place fairly rapidly. As … Read more “Times Quick Cryptic 1460 by Teazel”