Category: Quick Cryptic

Introduction Perhaps I’m out of practice, or perhaps I’m tired from organizing a one-year-old’s birthday party this weekend, or perhaps I was groggy from the nap I’d just woken up from, but this one gave … Read more “Times Quick Cryptic No 1422 by Wurm”

You wait ages for a new setter to arrive then two come along at once. Welcome Jalna. A quick search reveals that Jalna is a 16 book series of novels by the Canadian writer Mazo … Read more “Times Quick Cryptic 1421 by Jalna”

  Solving time: 9 minutes. Welcome to Trelawney, a new setter today! Wiki advises his is “a habitational surname of Cornish origin, meaning a person from a town with a church”. Above all I associate … Read more “Times Quick Cryptic 1420 by Trelawney”

I found this a nice middle-of-the-road difficulty puzzle from Orpheus today as it took me just under my target time of 5 1/2 minutes. We are treated to some lovely smooth surfaces and a smattering of  none-too-obscure … Read more “Times Quick Cryptic No 1419 by Orpheus – How’s yer mother off for dripping?”

Another tricky enough QC today – I did the last three QCs in a row and took pretty much bang on 15, 9 and 12 minutes for Tue/Wed/today. So halfway between tricky and average by … Read more “Times Quick Cryptic No 1418 by Izetti”

This isn’t the daftly easy one I was hoping for after several days of tricky puzzles, but it wasn’t too difficult either. Only 10ac may be an unfamiliar word to new solvers (it comes up … Read more “Times Quick Cryptic 1417 by Oink”

I wasn’t at the races with this one or if I was, backed all the wrong horses. When I eventually finished (rejoining the SCC with 19 minutes), I still struggled with some parsings. 14dn was … Read more “Times Quick Cryptic 1416 by Mara”

No time to stop and say anything today. I’m afraid I totally forgot I was on duty and am doing this in a complete rush before having to deal with the rest of life. Many … Read more “QC 1415 by Teazel”

So, not straightforward I would posit; took me well over 10 minutes. Rather rewarding in the end though. There’s a great example of an important device that beginners should all learn from: the familiar two-word phrase which needs … Read more “Quick Cryptic 1414 by Wurm”

No time for me today as I was distracted and interrupted several times, but it felt quite quick, with no major difficulties.  I’ll be interested to see others’ times.  Thanks Tracy. Across 1         Register … Read more “Times Quick Cryptic No 1413 by Tracy”