Category: Quick Cryptic

Pretty straightforward today from Felix. I don’t know how often he sets but I wonder if there’s a story behind the self-referential 2dn. Quite a lot of anagrams (7), some clunkier than others. LOI 12dn, … Read more “Quick Cryptic 1264 by Felix”

A few bits of slightly chewy parsing from Pedro this morning, together with a couple of foreign or adopted words / phrases, but nothing too taxing on the GK front.  I completed this, fully parsed … Read more “Times Quick Cryptic No 1263 by Pedro”

Finished this one in 11’40” while looking over paint choices for a new apartment. Several hidden words and a lot of anagrams, so not a lot of trouble here. I was held up mainly by … Read more “Times Quick Cryptic No 1262 by Oink”

In rather a hurry today so expect typos etc. I took 14 mins which seems heavy weather having now looked back at it. Thanks Tracy – and don’t mind my GR at 23ac – bit … Read more “Times Quick Cryptic 1261 by Tracy”

Solving time: 9 minutes. When blogging there seemed to be an excess of anagrams or partials but on counting them there were only 9, which out of 24 clues is surely not above average. I … Read more “Times Quick Cryptic 1260 by Mara”

A typically testing but fair puzzle from Izetti today with admirable surfaces to the clues. A good mix of clue types, we have no less than 3 cryptic definitions and a couple of “rubbish” clues. (No I … Read more “Times Quick Cryptic No 1259 by Izetti”

A gentle enough puzzle from Breadman today – I was twelve minutes yesterday and just over half that today (making a welcome change of pace after yesterday’s championship crossword!). This is only Breadman’s tenth QC … Read more “Times Quick Cryptic No 1258 by Breadman”

Previous puzzles by Wurm have averaged on the trickier side in my book, but this one posed no problems. There are plenty of anagrams and hiddens to help us on our way. COD to 2dn … Read more “Quick Cryptic 1257 by Wurm”

Happy New Year everyone! Everything seems a bit slow for some reason (!) this morning and today’s crossword was no exception. You may want to wait a bit later than I did and be a … Read more “Times Quick Cryptic 1256 by Joker”

Doctor! Doctor! I feel like a pair of bookends! Punchlines on a postcard please. Or a posted comment will do. It’s just that I have realised (I suppose it is pretty obvious really) that having … Read more “QC 1255 by Hurley – Bookends Theme”