Category: Quick Cryptic

In contrast to recent blog outings, I had a very low-resistance trip through this one, coming in a shade under 6 minutes. It seems to be a very fair and straightforward puzzzle, and hopefully a … Read more “Quick Cryptic 1194 by Rongo”

I’m going to stick my neck out and predict that this puzzle by Mara will cause a few newbies some difficulties. I started quickly with 1a and 4d going straight in, but then found it … Read more “Times Quick Cryptic No 1193 by Mara”

I made a right hash of this one. After racing through most of the puzzle in about 10 minutes, thinking it would be a breeze, I wound up completely in knots over the last handful … Read more “Times Quick Cryptic No 1192 by Felix”

Thanks to vinyl1 and plusjeremy for stepping in over the last couple of weeks. It’s very hectic having just got back – two interruptions during the course of solving means that I have no meaningful … Read more “Times Quick Cryptic 1191 by Pedro”

I needed all of my 10-minute target to complete this but I hope the puzzle will be received as an easier example that many of our newer contributors have been waiting for following a run of … Read more “Times Quick Cryptic 1190 by Flamande”

I approach my introduction to this blog with some trepidation given that I underestimated how difficult others would find the lovely QC from Izetti last time out and how much longer it took me today. … Read more “Times Quick Cryptic No 1189 by Izetti”

Slightly on the tricky side, I found, coming in two minutes over my target (with the possibly mitigating factor of a hangover). A fairly straight solve, but I was held up for a bit in … Read more “Times Quick Cryptic No 1188 by Hurley”

I found this a real slog, taking over twice as long as normal to complete it, and still having to look up some of the vocabulary before blogging. On top of this ignorance (4ac, 9ac), … Read more “Quick Cryptic 1187 by Orpheus”

Happy to be doing a guest blog on an off night. Just came from rehearsal for my barbershop quartet, so my mind was a bit distracted, but nevertheless I finished in 11’40” while simultaneously discussing … Read more “Times Quick Cryptic No 1186 by Joker”

This was medium difficulty for me, about 10 minutes, although I cannot be exact as I have just been all over the place the past couple of weeks with too much going on and not … Read more “QC 1185 by Teazel”